The Scoliosis Research Society 23rd International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques

Friday, July 15, 2016 | Washington, DC, USA

At this leading and prestigious scientific meeting on spinal surgery, Dr. McConnell presented the 7-year results of the clinical study involving the Prestige-LP cervical disc arthroplasty device. The FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) clinical trial compared the Prestige-LP total disc device to replace two consecutive discs in the neck versus the traditional surgery of two level disc fusion. At 84 months follow-up, patients who received the Prestige-LP two level artificial disc replacement achieved superior overall clinical results when compared to the fusion patients. At 7-years patients who received the two-level artificial disc replacement required 3-times fewer subsequent surgeries at the treated disc levels.  Patients who had cervical fusion were twice as likely to require additional surgeries at adjacent disc levels.  These longer term clinical results continue to demonstrate the efficacy of total disc replacement at 2 contiguous levels in the cervical spine.

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