Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Medos International Sarl

Erbe Elektromedizin Gmbh

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Hannover

Marc Müller

Klaus Fischer

William Miller

Achim Brodbeck

Kris Chavatte

Markus Reiterer

Thomas McCann, Jr

Birgit Glasmacher

Luke Ice

Frederik Kleber

Nicco Krezdorn

Kai Höltje

Devices and methods are provided for optimized spinal fixation using additive manufacturing techniques to create implants with optimized structure for various surgical approaches, anatomies, etc. One exemplary embodiment includes a cage having an X-shaped connection that can bear a load during cage impaction. The cage can be additively manufactured to incorporate features such as variable wall thickness or material density to adjust properties of the cage, including load bearing capability, flexibility, radiolucency, etc. The cage can further include one or more of the connectors disposed between upper and lower endplates. In some embodiments, the cage can include a feature for coupling an insertion device thereto for introducing the cage into the body of a patient. In some embodiments, a plate can be appended to or integrally formed with a proximal end of the cage to assist with securing the cage to vertebral bodies.

Devices and methods for optimized spinal fixation

A catheter device that includes a double-threaded guidance wire that allows multiple use of a compliant cavity creation device (i.e., treatment of more than one level). The double-threaded guidance wire may be connected with the luer part of the device and a distal part of the balloon using a threaded engagement to avoid lengthening of the inner tube, avoid lengthening of the balloon, and to limit the plastic deformation of the system in axial direction. In other implementations, the double-threaded guidance wire may be reconnected to the distal part of the balloon with a distal thread of the double-threaded guidance wire in order to restore the nominal length.

Double threaded guidance or stiffening wire for multiple use vertebral augmentation (VA) balloon

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Weil am Rhein, Germany

Marc Müller