PARIS and SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 19, 2013) – SpineGuard (FR0011464452 – ALSGD) announced today that its PediGuard platform has been adopted by leading spine surgeons in the department of orthopaedic surgery at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. This early adoption of PediGuard at one of the oldest and largest national universities in Japan, which is also consistently one
of the highest-ranking national universities in the country, comes on the heels of SpineGuard recently receiving product certification (“Ninsho”) to market its Classic and Curved PediGuard® products in Japan.
“We are very pleased with the early adoption of our technology by leading surgeons at a renowned school of medicine in Japan,” said Pierre Jérôme, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SpineGuard. “With Surgical Spine, Inc., our Japanese partner, we consider it as a requisite step and significant milestone in penetrating the significant Japanese market with our PediGuard devices, whose value in boosting the accuracy of pedicle screw placement has been unequivocally validated in several peer-reviewed medical journals.”
“PediGuard worked well in my operation,” said Dr. Kotaro Nishida, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. “It will give Japanese spine surgeons a sense of security in making a reliable pedicle screw pathway.”
“PediGuard was even more helpful than I had expected before the operation,” saidDr. Koichiro Maeno, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. “I am eager to use PediGuard on patients with different bone properties and in cases where the point of insertion varies.”
Japan is the second-largest market in spine after the USA and as reported in an article by David Cassak in the July/August 2013 issue of IN VIVO magazine entitled “Taming of the Screw”, “Japan is a particularly promising market [for PediGuard] because surgeons there implant a lot of pedicle screws in the upper part of the spinal column as a result of specific problems that affect Asian patients.”
About SpineGuard®
Co-founded in 2009 by Pierre Jérôme and Stéphane Bette, former executives at Medtronic Sofamor-Danek and SpineVision, SpineGuard’s primary objective is to establish its FDA-cleared and CE-marked PediGuard® device as the global standard of care for safer screw placement in spine surgery. SpineGuard’s mission is to make spine surgery safer. The company has offices in San Francisco and Paris. For further information, visitwww.spineguard.com.
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John Dunston says
Japan had been known for the durability of their inventions. Hope this one may be affordable despite its being the most recent one.