The TLIF implant is intended to replace lumbar intervertebral discs and to fuse the adjacent vertebral bodies together at vertebral levels L1–S1. The TLIF implant is designed for a transforaminal approach.
Indications
Indications are lumbar and lubosacral pathologies in which segmental spondylodesis is indicated, for example:
- Degenerative disc diseases and spinal instabilities
- Revision procedures for post-discectomy syndrome
- Pseudarthrosis or failed spondylodesis
- Degenerative spondylolisthesis
- Isthmic spondylolisthesis
Contraindications
- Vertebral body fractures
- Spinal tumors
- Major spinal instabilities
- Primary spinal deformities
- Osteoporosis