New medical system: Asian Hospital & Health Care Management: Medtronic Launches Discyphor Direct(TM) Catheter System

Second-Generation Product for Diagnosis of Discogenic Low Back Pain

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT ), today announced the U.S. launch of the Discyphor Direct™ Catheter System, the second-generation catheter system used by physicians to obtain additional information to diagnose discogenic low back pain.

The Discyphor Direct Catheter System provides additional information to help identify which disc is causing a patient's pain. More than 100,000 patients annually undergo spinal surgery for discogenic low back pain in the United States1, but patient satisfaction from such surgeries is mixed.

"With the Discyphor Direct Catheter System, we are empowering physicians to independently assess discs to determine the source of a patient's back pain while delivering many enhancements over our first-generation product," said Robert White, president of Kyphon and Interspinous Process Decompression Devices for the Spinal and Biologics at Medtronic, which markets the Discyphor product line. "Both patients and physicians will benefit from this new system because of its improved ease of use and a needle that is designed with an atraumatic or blunt tip."

 

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