Products
Close access to the Balgrist University Hospital and its research campus enables us to develop high quality technologies and products to solve unmet clinical needs in soft tissue repair. Explore our innovative product portfolio including solutions for orthopaedic sports medicine.
At ZuriMED, we strive to improve the quality of patients‘ lives by developing breakthrough technologies and products primed to revolutionize the landscape of soft tissue repair. Besides two out-licensed products, our main focus currently lies on the FiberLocker® System.
FiberLocker® System
Breakthrough technology for the arthroscopic augmentation of the rotator cuff repair.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The FiberLocker® System is ZuriMED’s first self-licensed product. It comprises a synthetic PET implant (SpeedPatch® PET) and a single-use surgical instrument (FiberLocker® Instrument) for its fixation. The instrument is powered by a commercially available shaver unit and is used during an arthroscopic procedure. It is indicated for the rotator cuff reinforcement of patients with a tendon tear. Read more about the indications for use in the dedicated chapter.
TECHNOLOGY
The patented sewing-like technology enables the formation of a strong interwoven network between the implant’s fibers and the tendon tissue. The reciprocally moving micro-blade of the instrument pushes fibers of the nonwoven PET implant into the underlying tissue. This process ensures that the patch is attached over the whole patch-tendon interface, leading to improved mechanical properties at time zero (Meyer et al., 2023).
TECHNOLOGY
The patented sewing-like technology enables the formation of a strong interwoven network between the implant’s fibers and the tendon tissue. The reciprocally moving microblade of the instrument pushes fibers of the nonwoven PET implant into the underlying tissue. This process ensures that the patch is attached over the whole patch-tendon interface, leading to improved mechanical properties at time zero (Meyer et al., 2023).
CLINICAL APPLICATION
During the arthroscopic procedure, the PET implant is placed on top of the underlaying repair of the rotator cuff tendon. The simple and fast sewing-like technology enables a knotless fixation of the patch to the underlying tendon tissue in only 90 seconds. Two lateral sutures and anchors are used to secure the patch to the humerus.
INDICATIONS FOR USE
The FiberLocker® System is a single use device intended to be used for reinforcement of the rotator cuff, following or during repair by suture or suture anchors, where weakness exists in the soft tissue.
The FiberLocker® System is not intended to replace normal body structure or provide the full mechanical strength to support the rotator cuff. Sutures, used to repair the tear, and sutures or bone anchors, used to attach the tissue to the bone, provide mechanical strength for the repair.
Explore how the attachement technology of the implant onto tendon tissue works.
SUPPORTING DATA
Pre-clinical sheep studies, conducted in collaboration with the University of Zürich, demonstrated excellent patch integration into the regenerated tendon tissue. No adverse side effects were observed in any of the specimens (Meyer et al., 2023).
Biomechanical studies, conducted in an ex vivo ovine model, revealed significantly increased mechanical forces at time zero when enhancing a double Mason Allen stitch with the FiberLocker® System compared to a non-augmented configuration (Meyer et al., 2023).
This novel technology has been tested by more than 40 surgeons worldwide in human cadaver labs. The overall feedback has been highly positive.
This product is not available for sale in the United States.
Contact us to get more information about the product and the technology.
BTB-Converter™
Knee ligament reconstruction.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Eight years of advanced biomaterial research and translational development at the University and ETH Zürich, in collaboration with leading Swiss surgeons, has led to ZuriMED’s Bone-Tendon-Bone (BTB)-Converter™ for knee ligament reconstruction.
This technology was developed by ZuriMED in the past and has now been out-licensed.
VariLoop™
Superior ligament fixation.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The single strand VariLoop™ enables superior ligament fixation. Its use is simple, easy, self flipping and truly knotless. The technology’s high reliability and strength was proven in all testing conditions. This implant can be used in different configurations in many indications where tension or compression is key for healing.
This technology was developed by ZuriMED in the past and has now been out-licensed.
ZuriMED strives to continuously expand its product portfolio and develop medical devices and technologies to improve the healing of soft tissue pathologies in patients. Stay tuned for future breakthrough innovations!