SpinePlex
SpinePlex® Bone Cement
SpinePlex is a derivative of Simplex® P bone cement. It contains the same polymethyl metacrylate and is manufactured using the same proprietary process. Simplex P has proven through clinical testing to have high fatigue,[1] compressive[2] and flexural strengths,[2] and low creep.[3]
Features:
- Derivative of Simplex P bone cement
- Proven strength
- Optimal viscosity is attained quickly
- Working time of 10 -12 minutes
- In vivo (37ºC) set time 8.2 minutes
- Greater visibility in radiology images
- 30% barium sulfate concentration
To learn more or to place an order, contact your Stryker sales representative or Stryker Instruments customer service—800.253.3210.
(Sterile; 2 per box)
406-202-000
SpinePlex 20 Gram Twin Pack (1/2 Dose)
406-200-000
SpinePlex 40 Gram Twin Pack (Full Dose)
Downloads
Vertebroplasty Product Brochure (US) (1 MB, PDF)
Vertebroplasty Product Brochure (Euro) (2 MB, PDF)
Indications For Use
SpinePlex Radiopaque Bone Cement is indicated for the fixation of pathological fractures of the vertebral body using vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty procedures. Painful vertebral compression fractures may result from osteoporosis, benign lesions (hemangioma), and malignant lesions (metastatic cancers, myeloma).
Contraindications
The use of VertaPlex Radiopaque Bone Cement is contraindicated in patients with:
- Allergies or sensitivity to any of its chemical components
- Cases of active or incompletely treated infection
- Coagulation disorders, or with severe cardiopulmonary disease
- Spinal stenosis (>20% by retropulsed fragments)
- Vertebral plana (collapse >90%)
- Compromise of the vertebral body or the walls of the pedicles
- Unstable vertebral fractures due to posterior involvement
- Patient clearly improving on medical therapy
- Prophylaxis in metastatic or osteoporotic patients with no evidence of acute fracture
- Non-Pathological, acute traumatic fractures of the vertebra
