safety and performance of the spinevision hexanium acif in the treatment of cervical spine degenerative disc disease

Conditions: Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

Summary: the goal of this observational study is to confirm the safety and efficacy of the hexanium acif system in the treatment of skeletally mature patients suffering from degenerative disc disease (disease that occurs when the spinal disk breaks down) at the cervical spine level (c3-c7). part of their standard of care, participants will be questioned on their neck and arm pains, their disability and if they have encountered any adverse effects since the hexanium acif system implant surgery. those data will be collected up to twenty four (24) months after the hexanium acif system implant surgery.

the hexanium acif study is a multicentric, non-randomized, ambispective, post market clinical follow-up study. this means that either subjects already implanted with the hexanium acif system (retrospective subjects) or subjects planned for treatment with the hexanium acif system (prospective subjects) can be enrolled in hte study. standard of care subjects data up to twenty four (24) months post hexanium acif system implant procedure will be collected; key data include neck and arm visual analogue score (vas), neck disability index (ndi) score, and adverse events. data will be collected at month 2, month 6, month 12 and month 24 post surgery.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: * patient planned for hexanium acif system implant or patient implanted with hexanium acif system (not prior july 2020) * patient of 18 years old or more * patient has provided signed informed consent, or did not oppose to his/her data collection, per local regulation exclusion criteria: contra-indication * infection, local to the operative site * signs of local inflammation * fever or leukocytosis * morbid obesity * pregnancy * paediatric cases, or patient still having general skeletal growth * spondylolisthesis unable to be reduced to grade i * suspected or documented allergy or intolerance to metal * any case where the implant components selected for use would be too large or too small to achieve a successful result * any patient having inadequate tissue coverage over the operative site or inadequate bone stock or quality * any patient in which implant utilization would interfere with anatomical structures or expected physiological performance * prior fusion at the level to be treated * any case not needing a bone graft or fusion * any abnormality present which affects the normal process of bone remodelling including, but not limited to severe osteoporosis involving spine, bone absorption, osteopenia, primary or metastasis tumours involving the spine, active infection at the site or certain metabolic disorders affecting osteogenesis * any other condition which would preclude the potential benefit of spinal implant surgery, such as the presence of tumours or congenital abnormalities, fracture local to operating site, elevation of segmentation rate unexplained by other diseases, elevation of white blood count (wbc), or marked left shift in the wbc differential count * mental illness * any patient unwilling to cooperate with postoperative instructions

Keywords: spine arthrodesis stabilization neck disability index visual analogue score cervical fusion