Alphatec this week announced plans to launch the Calibrate LTX lateral expandable implant system at the 2023 NASS Annual meeting, taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, October 18-21.
Carlsbad, California-based Alphatec designed the system to better achieve alignment goals with precise lordosis control and disc height restoration.
“ATEC is uniquely dedicated to improving lateral surgery,” CEO Pat Miles said in a news release. “The release of Calibrate LTX elevates our lateral procedural thesis by better-enabling surgeons to achieve the most elusive goal of surgery: alignment. When it comes to alignment, EOS is the best imaging tool to determine it, PTP is the best lateral procedure to achieve it and Calibrate LTX is the expandable implant system that best drives it. At NASS, we will demonstrate how to apply PTP in increasingly complex procedures and how to employ LTP to address L3 through S1, the most commonly treated levels in spine. Our path to becoming the standard bearer in lateral surgery will be apparent.”
Calibrate LTX Interbody is a lordotic expandable lumbar intervertebral body fusion system. It is inserted through a lateral or anterolateral surgical approach. It is indicated for spinal fusion procedures from T1 to S1 in skeletally mature patients for the treatment of asymptomatic degenerative disc disease, degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis and thoracic disc herniation at one or two adjacent levels.
The system can be used as an adjunct to fusion in patients diagnosed with multilevel degenerative scoliosis and sagittal deformity. It is intended for use in patients who have had at least six months of non-operative treatment and is intended to be used with autograft or allogeneic bone graft comprised of cortical, cancellous or corticocancellous bone or demineralized allograft bone with bone marrow aspirate and supplemental fixation systems.
“The Calibrate LTX expandable lateral system seamlessly integrates with ATEC’s entire lateral platform. The simplicity and ease of insertion of the implant is unique compared to the over-engineering that plagues other expandable systems. Enhanced visibility, powerful expansion and ease of back-filling make LTX the ideal expandable interbody solution,” Dr. Anthony Kwan, an orthopedic spine surgeon at OrthoCarolina and Atrium Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., said.