Mazor Robotics Reaches Product Milestone

Mazor Robotics Ltd., a developer of guidance systems and related products, reported the 10,000th successful spinal surgery in which Mazor Robotics’ guidance system (Renaissance as well as the earlier Spine Assist) was used. The Renaissance Guidance System was launched in mid-2012 and is being used by orthopedic and neurosurgeons to perform a wide range of spine and brain surgeries.

“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 Ori Hadomi, CEO of Mazor Robotics. “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.”

According to Mazor officials, Renaissance improves the execution and results 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 more than 1,000 complex spinal deformity correction procedures and “thousands” of minimally invasive procedures, Mazor brass reports. Additionally, Renaissance has been used in a variety of brain operations, including deep-brain stimulation procedures.

So far, the youngest patient to be operated on using Renaissance was five years old and the oldest patient was 92 years old.

Renaissance allows surgeons to create a pre-operative blueprint of the ideal surgery for each patient in a virtual 3-D environment in addition to the guidance system.

“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, Ga. “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.”

Mazor anticipates its Renaissance Guidance System will be used in more than 3,000 spine and brain procedures in 2015.

Mazor is based in Israel. The company’s U.S. office is in Orlando, Fla.