Orthofix International N.V. has launched its TL-HEX, or TrueLok Hexapod System, to international markets. The company displayed the system at the annual meetings of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SIOT) in Rome, Italy and the French Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SOFCOT) in Paris, France.
The company believes this multi-planar system together with the associated software will provide access to the largest segment of the circular and hybrid fixation markets long dominated by one product.
The system, an external hexapod ring-type fixator for deformity correction and complex trauma treatment, was co-developed with the company’s partner, the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. That partnership was recently extended through 2018.
Bob Vaters, Orthofix’s president and CEO, said the company is a global leader of external fixation and the TRU-HEX “truly improves the lives of patients who are suffering from orthopedic deformities or from trauma.”
The first surgery using the system was performed by Dr. Franz Birkholtz in South Africa in November.
