A Femur-First Knee System Offers Increased Versatility

The system enables surgeons the flexibility of choosing between a tibial-first or femoral-first referencing and resection surgical technique and approach, due to a range of instruments that share a common foundation. Innovative alignment and conservative resection instrumentation assists in easily adapting the system to any surgeons' training and methodology, including use with mechanical or computer assisted surgical navigation. Among the system enhancements for the femur-first approach are novel femoral tibial alignment ("knee jack”) instruments with dedicated alignment and resection guides, instrumentation that allows surgeon to match flexion and extension gaps, curvatures that match the normal knee, improved kinematic and biomechanical function, and proprietary tibial fixation pegs and keel, with an available pin-less option. The Align 360 unicompartmental knee system is a product of Cardo Medical (Los Angeles, CA, USA), and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"We are pleased to offer intraoperative versatility within all of our systems and continue to offer modularity and interchangeability, especially within our Align 360 knee platform,” said Andrew Brooks, M.D., chairman and CEO of Cardo Medical. "Our innovations, especially with regards to instrumentation, surgical approaches, and techniques enable surgeons to achieve excellent surgical outcomes.”

"The Cardo Align 360 instrumentation system eliminates the guesswork for the first cut, the system was easy and simple to use and creates a reproducible outcome each time,” said Jonathan Braslow, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at JFK Memorial Hospital (Indio, CA, USA).

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