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Clinical results of ProDisc-II lumbar total disc replacement: report from the United States clinical trial.

Delamarter RB, Bae HW, Pradhan BB

Spine Research Foundation, The Spine Institute at Saint John's Health Center, Suite 400, 1301 20th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.

The much-awaited clinical use of lumbar artificial discs has begun in the United States. The United States Investigational Device Exemption (US IDE) clinical trial of the ProDisc-II prosthetic disc (Synthes, Paoli, PA) was recently completed, with all indications that it meets or surpasses the test of equivalence against fusion controls. This is a review of the clinical performance of the ProDisc-II artificial disc and includes an interim report from the US IDE trial at one site.

Published 13 June 2005 in Orthop Clin North Am, 36(3): 301-13.
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