Wednesday, Medtronic Inc. (MDT) announced the full U.S. market release of MASTERGRAFT Strip - a new, highly flexible ceramic scaffold intended for use in combination with a patient's own bone for fusing multiple levels of the posterolateral spine. MASTERGRAFT Strip was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA earlier this year and has been clinically evaluated by surgeons for a variety of bone grafting procedures with outstanding intraoperative performance.
MASTERGRAFT Strip provides surgeons with a bone grafting option that offers a continuous latticework for longer grafting procedures at the back of the spine, which are often performed when the spine loses stability or its natural shape. The product's broad geometric design maximizes bony surface area contact and allows for continuous bone growth over large bony gaps, the company said.
The product comes in unique lengths that eliminate the need to utilize multiple units of a synthetic product for a long fusion. The combination of these handling characteristics and the features common to all MASTERGRAFT Products provides surgeons with a synthetic graft that has all the necessary qualities of a scaffold for multi-level posterolateral fusion procedures.
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