Mazor Robotics Ltd, of Caesarea, Israel, reports that surgeons have successfully completed the 10, 000th spinal surgery using the Mazor Robotics guidance system. The company launched the system in 2012
Company officials assert that Renaissance participates in a wide variety of spine procedures, including minimally invasive and percutaneous degenerative repair, vertebrae stabilization and fixation for complex spinal deformity as well as vertebral augmentation. To date, Renaissance has been used in over 1, 000 complex spinal deformity correction procedures and has been used in a variety of brain operations, including deep brain stimulation procedures. The youngest patient to be operated on using Renaissance was five years old and the oldest patient was 92 years old.
“I have been incorporating Mazor Robotics technology into my practice for over five years now, ” said pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dennis Devito, M.D., of Children’s Orthopedics of Atlanta. He said, “I find it provides improved patient care through enhancement of the surgeon’s capabilities. As a surgeon that has many patients with severe spinal deformity, the Renaissance Guidance System allows me to visualize and plan my surgery so I can focus my attention on correcting my patients’ curve.”
“As we approach 50 Renaissance Guidance Systems in the U.S., our goal is to accelerate the adoption of the system, to make it the standard of care for spinal surgeons across the country, ” said Mazor Robotics CEO Ori Hadomi. “While we are very proud of the tools we have built for the surgeons using Renaissance, what is most rewarding for the team at Mazor is to see the way our system enables patients to quickly get back on their feet and resume their daily activities, a reality that many would have thought impossible only a few years ago.”
