More than 550,000 patients have benefited from MicroPoint Orthopedics' medial-pivot total knee system since it was launched in 1998.
Here's what you should know.
1. The company is celebrating the system's 20th anniversary.
2. The medial-pivot knee system was introduced as an alternative to hinge-like knee design with multiple radii.
3. Joost Lagast, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Maria Middelares Hospital Ghent in Belgium started using the system in May 1998. He said, "During my first case, it was love at first sight – the stability and natural motion were unlike anything I’d seen in my practice. Over the last 20 years, I’ve performed nearly 4,000 knee replacement surgeries using the system, and I’m still fantastically in love with it today."
4. MicroPort Orthopedics President Aurelio Sahagun said, "When we launched the system back in 1998, there was nothing else like it on the market — it challenged the basis of traditional designs. Change does not happen often in orthopedics, but at the time, we knew that the medial-pivot concept had the capability to revolutionize total knee replacement. 20 years later, clinical results have proven that this design delivers better outcomes for patients and surgeons."