The award was presented at the ISASS annual conference earlier this year. Here are five things to know about the award-winning paper and its authors.
1. Michael Hisey, MD, of Texas Back Institute; Reginald Davis, MD, of Greater Baltimore Medical Center; Hyun Bae, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Spine Center; Kee D. Kim, MD, of UC Davis Health System; S.E. Gaede, MD, of Oklahoma Spine & Brain Institute; and Pierce Nunley, MD, of the Spine Institute of Louisiana authored the paper. The paper was titled “Sagittal Alignment of One-level TDR and ACDF Patients: An Analysis of Patient Outcomes from a Randomized, Prospective, Clinical Trial.”
2. The trial examined LDR’s Mobi-C investigational device exemption results, finding that ACDF patients with kyphotic C2-C7 angle at 24 months had significantly worse outcomes in NDI score, satisfaction and SF-12 Mental Component Score than those with lordic C2-C7.
3. There was no significant difference in outcomes between the C2-C7 lordic and kyphotic Mobi-C patients at 24 months after surgery. This is an improvement over patients who received fusion. “We feel that the growing body of long-term evidence on Mobi-C, including what was presented at the ISASS annual meeting, further supports the role this technology has in providing patients with a treatment alternative to fusion,” said LDR President and CEO Christophe Lavigne.
4. There were six podium presentations discussing Mobi-C at the ISASS annual meeting. The papers compared one- and two-level fusion procedures with one- and two-level cervical disc replacements. Mobi-C is the only cervical total disc replacement in the United States with FDA approval for both one- and two-level procedures.
5. An additional two studies examined sagittal alignment of two-level total disc replacement patients. The first found both lordic and kyphotic two-level Mobi-C patients had similar pain relief and satisfaction at 24 months postoperatively. The second compared two-level procedures to fusion and found significantly greater improvement in personal care, work, headaches, reading, lifting and recreation headaches among the disc arthroplasty group.
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