Zimmer Holdings, Inc. may launch two “significant” new products at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) February 2012 annual meeting in San Francisco. That’s what Mizuho Securities Analyst Mike Matson wrote to investors on December 9. Matson said the products would include a new knee to replace the company’s “aging” NexGen knee and vitamin [...]

After 20 years of use, total knee replacements are still trucking. John B. Meding, M.D. of the St. Francis Medical Group, Beech Grove, Indiana, evaluated 1,757 total knee replacements (TKR) that had been implanted between 1975 and 1989. He found that 128 of the patients, whose average age was 82, were still living. Despite the [...]

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. is bringing its NexGen LPS-Flex knee with Prolong Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene (XLPE) to the U.S. The company, in a January 13 press release, says combining prolong polyethylene with its LPS-Flex knee provides a “revolutionary anteriorly positioned pivot near the entry point of the anterior cruciate ligament, replicating the anatomic center of knee [...]

Anatomically, well, the knee pretty much stays the same. The technology to handle its issues, fortunately, evolves. And you might now say that Wright Medical Technology has the market on knee technology evolution. The company has announced the launch of the EVOLUTION Medial-Pivot Knee System, which features enhanced instrumentation, more sizing options and a posterior [...]