Friday, March 20, 2009

Harvard Study Favors Cayenne Medical's AperFix Technology for Reconstruction of Torn ACL

"Single-Tunnel, Double-Bundle" Technique Shown to More Closely Resemble Intact ACL than "Single-Bundle" Technique

BOSTON--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Cayenne Medical, Inc., a privately held sports medicine company based in Scottsdale, announced today that a new Harvard clinical study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) found that Cayenne’s AperFix(R) System and "Single Tunnel, Double Bundle™" ACL reconstruction technique better resembles the natural, intact ACL when compared to the more common, "Single-Bundle" technique.

The study, titled "Biomechanical Comparison of Single-Tunnel, Double-Bundle and Single-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions," appears in the current issue of AJSM and was authored by Hemanth R. Gadikota, MS, Jong Keun Seon, MD, Michal Kozanek, MD, Luke S. Oh, MD, Thomas J. Gill, MD, and Guoan Li, PhD, all from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and Kenneth D. Montgomery, MD, of Tri-County Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine in Morristown, New Jersey.

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