BACKGROUND: Although total disc replacement has been performed for years outside the
United States, relatively little available data address clinical outcomes, particularly data from …

Study Design. This is a retrospective analysis of data that was collected prospectively from 2
concurrent FDA IDE lumbar arthroplasty clinical trials performed at a single center …

Study Design. Multicenter prospective randomized study of artificial disc replacement
(ProDisc) versus circumferential fusion (standard of care) for one-and two-level …

Study Design. A retrospective clinical data analysis. Objective. To determine the therapeutic
effectiveness of lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) using ProDisc-L (Synthes Spine, West …

Study Design. A retrospective analysis. Objective. To evaluate the long-term clinical and
radiographic outcomes and to investigate who achieved the successful outcomes after …

Purpose of study: Total disc replacement is a surgical procedure that can be considered as
an alternative to spinal fusion, for the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain …

Background Lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) has shown satisfactory clinical outcomes
with few complications and reoperations at short-term follow-up, but the mid-to long-term …

Total disc replacement has the potential to replace fusion as the gold standard surgical
treatment of degenerative disc disease. Potential advantages of disc replacement over …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Treatment for multilevel degenerative disc disease that does not
respond to conservative treatment has been limited to fusion. However, disc replacement …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: The FDA has approved artificial lumbar discs for single-level
symptomatic degenerative disc disease (DDD). Unfortunately, DDD tends more often than …