Intradiscal Catheters

Research from M.K. Schaufele and colleagues provide new insights into intradiscal catheters

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, November 23rd, 2008

"Single-arm prospective clinical trial. To determine the treatment effect and MRI changes of targeted disc decompression using an intradiscal catheter for focal heating of symptomatic lumbar disc protrusions resulting in radicular pain," investigators in the United States report.

"Percutaneous methods for treatment of lumbar disc herniations are potentially attractive alternatives to open surgical discetomies. The effects of a newly designed, percutaneous electrothermal intradiscal catheter were evaluated. Twenty-two subjects with MRI confirmed, single-level contained lumbar disc protrusions, a minimum of 8 weeks of radicular pain (average 63 weeks) and failed...

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