Medtronic announce new clinical trial to study Infuse bone graft in TLIF spine procedures

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Medtronic today announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a prospective, randomised pivotal clinical trial for the use of Infuse bone graft in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) spine procedures.

“The potential to expand the indications for use of Infuse in posterior spine procedures may give a broader group of patients access to this novel biologic technology,” said Joseph D Smucker, an orthopaedic spine surgeon with the Indiana Spine Group and principal investigator in the clinical trial.

He continued: “When considering the patient, site, and procedure, Infuse can be a powerful option in a spine surgeon’s armamentarium. This study has the potential to add to the broader clinical and scientific evidence regarding use of Infuse, and may allow surgeons to better understand its safe and effective use in TLIF procedures.”

Medtronic has initiated site recruitment for the TLIF clinical trial with the potential to enrol up to 50 sites with over 1,000 patients. In 2017, Medtronic announced the FDA approval of a separate clinical trial to study Infuse bone graft in posterolateral fusion (PLF) procedures.

The company is currently enrolling its prospective pilot PLF clinical trial and is working with the FDA to incorporate retrospective safety and effectiveness data sufficient for indication expansion in PLF.

“With 17 years of clinical use, Infuse Bone Graft has become one of the most extensively-researched biologic technologies commercially available today,” said Jacob Paul, senior vice president and president of Medtronic’s Spine division, which is part of the Restorative Therapies Group.

Infuse Bone Graft has been on the market since 2002 and has been trusted clinically in over two million patients worldwide to date.

The product is FDA-approved for certain spine, oral-maxillofacial and orthopaedic trauma surgeries. In spine surgery, Infuse is used with certain Medtronic interbody fusion devices at a single level for patients with degenerative disc disease (DDD) and eliminates the need to harvest bone from the patient’s body in a secondary surgical procedure.

The use of Infuse bone graft in TLIF and PLF procedures is investigational only.


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