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Globus Medical’s SECURE®C Cervical Artificial Disc Receives Expanded Insurance Coverage
Jan 24, 2019
Approved by the
At seven-year post-operative follow-up, patients treated with SECURE-C® exhibited the following results compared to patients treated with ACDF:
- Statistically superior composite protocol-specified overall success results (86.3% vs. 70.0%)
- Statistically superior composite
FDA -defined overall success results (79.2% vs. 63.6%) - Greater percentage of patients with at least 25% improvement in Neck Disability Index, a measure of pain and function (90.4% vs. 86.0%)
- Lower rate of subsequent surgery at the original treated level (4.2% vs. 15.3%)
- Lower rate of adjacent level surgery (4.2% vs. 16.0%)
“The long term clinical results validate that SECURE-C® creates a significant improvement in patients’ lives over the long term, an important factor in expanding payer coverage,” said Globus Medical’s President,
For more information about SECURE-C®, please visit GlobusMedical.com/SECURE-C.
Indications
The SECURE-C® Cervical Artificial Disc is indicated in skeletally mature patients for reconstruction of the disc at one level from C3-C7 following single-level discectomy for intractable radiculopathy (arm pain and/or a neurological deficit) with or without neck pain or myelopathy due to a single-level abnormality localized to the disc space and at least one of the following conditions confirmed by radiographic imaging (CT, MRI, X-rays): herniated nucleus pulposus, spondylosis (defined by the presence of osteophytes), and/or visible loss of disc height as compared to adjacent levels. The SECURE-C® Cervical Artificial Disc is implanted using an anterior approach. Patients should have failed at least 6 weeks of conservative treatment prior to implantation of the SECURE-C® Cervical Artificial Disc.
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