VertaPlex
VertaPlex® Bone Cement
VertaPlex has been developed for the physician desiring higher initial viscosity and longer working time. Great for multiple level vertebroplasties and vertebral augmentation, VertaPlex maintains a desirable toothpaste-like consistency for an average of 18 minutes.
Features:
- Higher initial viscosity
- Increased working time – approximately 18 minutes
- In vivo (37ºC) set time 10.2 minutes
- Lower creep rate
- 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)
406-402-000
VertaPlex 20 Gram Twin Pack (1/2 Dose)
Downloads
VCF Product Brochure (US) (3 MB, PDF)
Vertebroplasty Product Brochure (Euro) (2 MB, PDF)
Cement Comparison Graph (350 KB, PDF)
Indications For Use
VertaPlex 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
- The presence of active or incompletely treated infection at the site where the bone cement is to be applied
- 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
