Spine News

The FDA proposed to classify spinal spheres for use in intervertebral fusion procedures into class III assignment.

A 29-year-old non-smoking man with a BMI of 37 kg/m2 and history of bipolar disease sustained a right subtrochanteric femur fracture and pseudoaneurysm of his right proximal femoral artery after a gunshot in December 2016.

For patients with degenerative spine disease, minimally invasive lumbar fusion was associated with increased odds of short-term satisfaction and lower Oswestry Disability Index compared with open fusion, according to published results.

Biden administration officials recently discussed several initiatives within a multi-pronged, multi-agency collaboration that they said are needed to address the overdose epidemic.

In this video from the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting, Carlton Weatherby, vice president and general manager of spine and biologics at Medtronic, speaks on innovation in minimally invasive spine surgery.

NuVasive Inc. announced decreased net sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic, health care staffing shortages and limited availability of specialized products, according to its third-quarter 2021 financial report.

In a company release, Accuray Inc. announced its CyberKnife radiotherapy platform, which delivers stereotactic radiosurgery to treat lesions in the brain, was supported by more than 2 decades of globally driven clinical data.

According to published results, current smoking status and a BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 “significantly predicted” prolonged opioid usage after lumbar decompression and fusion surgery.

Presence of a fellow or resident has no effect on patient-reported outcomes, surgery time, length of stay, readmission, infection or revision in patients who have lumbar spinal fusion surgery, according to recently published data.

Published results showed an improvement in screw times with the use of robotic navigated assistance within the first several cases of posterior spinal fusion.