| Catalog Number |
03.30.202 |
| Health Effect - Clinical Code |
Failure of Implant (1924)
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| Date of Event |
04/06/2018
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Type of Reportable Event
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Malfunction
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Additional Manufacturer Narrative
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Batch review performed on 04 may 2018.Lot 143313: (b)(4) items manufactured and released on 25 june 2015, expiration date: 2020-06-07.No anomalies found related to the problem.To date: (b)(4) items of the same lot have been already sold without any similar reported event.Instruments involved: mectalif reference (b)(4) alif straight inserter mectalif reference (b)(4) alif inserter inner shaft preliminary investigation performed by r&d spine director on 10 april 2018.The instrument is designed that the pins of the instrument go through the plate into the cage, for this reason with the available information it is not possible understand what could have happened during surgery.
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Event or Problem Description
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After implantation of a mectalif ti peek anterior cage with flush plate, the surgeon was attempting to change the rotational position of the cage within the disc space to match the anatomy.The flush plate became disassociated from the cage.A second cage and flush plate was opened to complete the surgery.
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