Motion preservation with Cervical Disc replacement
The Prestige® Cervical Disc
The Prestige® Cervical Disc is designed to maintain motion in the neck for patients experiencing radiculopathy and myelopathy (conditions that result from a diseased or bulging disc). It is a safe and effective alternative to spinal fusion.This device was evaluated in a clinical study that involved 541 patients - the largest clinical study of its kind ever conducted and completed for the cervical spine. Some key findings of the study include:
- The group of patients receiving the Prestige Cervical Disc had a median return to work that was 26.2% earlier than the median in the spinal fusion treatment group.
- Patients in the Prestige Cervical Disc group experienced no device failures (breakages).
- Fewer patients in the Prestige Cervical Disc group required revision surgical procedures than those in the spinal fusion treatment group. A revision surgery was defined as a procedure that adjusts or in any way modifies the original implant configuration.
Products
The Prestige Cervical Disc
The Prestige® Cervical Disc offers patients with radiculopathy and myelopathy related to degenerative cervical disc disease in the cervical spine an alternative to spinal fusion surgery.
Gallery
Video
Cervical Disc Replacement at Trinity Mother Frances Health System
This video of a Cervical Disc Replacement takes place at Trinity Mother Frances Neuroscience Institute in Tyler, TX. It uses the Prestige Cervical Disc and shows the footage of the live surgery, along with commentary by two physicians.
Resource Library
Fact Sheet
Prestige Cervical Disc Fact Sheet
The Prestige® Cervical Disc is a stainless steel surgical implant indicated to treat patients suffering from degenerative disc disease (DDD) of the cervical (neck) spine.
Press Release
Medtronic Receives Approval for First Artificial Disc for the Neck in the United States
Medtronic, Inc. announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the The Prestige® Cervical Disc, the first artificial disc commercially available in the U.S. for use in the neck.
Article
Range of Motion Change After Cervical Arthroplasty
In this article from the Journal of Neurosurgery, range of motion (ROM) changes were evaluated at the surgically treated and adjacent segments in cadaveric specimens treated with two different cervical artificial discs compared with those measured in intact spine and fusion models.
Article
Analysis of Cervical Disc Arthroplasty Compared with Allograft Fusion
The authors report the results of a prospective randomized multicenter study in which the results of cervical disc arthroplasty were compared with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in patients treated for symptomatic single-level cervical degenerative disc disease (DDD).
Article
A Device that Provides a Variable Center of Rotation
This article provides a review of some basic biomechanical principles that were used in the design of the Prestige® Cervical Disc.
Physician Education
The Spine Academy Learning Series
This 2009 Winter/Spring course catalog includes a wide variety of CEU credit courses, including Anatomy: Dissecting Spinal Procedures, Hospital Inpatient Coding: Spine Surgery Case Study Analysis and (FOR SURGEONS) Basic Spine Coding for Physicians Part 1: Coding Principles, among others.
