Donated tissue gives grandmother a new lease on life

Martha Steele’s life changed suddenly in December 2017, when she was injured in a car accident. The result was a painful nerve compression injury that sidelined the Air Force veteran, full-time hospital worker, and grandmother of three.

Innovation in Processing

The safety and quality of allograft bio-implants are critical to physicians and their patients. As a leading regenerative medicine company, LifeNet Health has developed a full suite of technologies to ensure these needs are met with every bio-implant we provide. 

LifeNet Health offers four allograft bio-implant technologies every surgeon should take note of:

PliaFX Prime

PliaFX® Prime
 
PliaFX Prime is 100% bone fibers, demineralized to encourage bone formation and healing. The fibers interlock, allowing the graft to become moldable upon rehydration without the use of a carrier.

ViviGen Case Studies

ViviGen can be used in a variety of procedures and in the most challenging patients to provide successful clinical outcomes.

ViviGen Peer-Reviewed Publications

The most recent peer-reviewed paper published in Cell and Tissue Banking outlines a comprehensive series of in vitro and in vivo assays demonstrating that LifeNet Health’s viable bone allograft, ViviGen, provides all three essential bone remodeling properties and contains viable, lineage-committed bone-forming cells that do not elicit an immune response. Together, the results support ViviGen as a safe and effective alternative to autograft, without the associated drawbacks. 

Cotton and Evans Osteotomy Wedges

SymAlign Evans and Cotton Osteotomy wedges are intended for use in foot procedures. The wedges are sourced from cancellous bone from the femoral heads and condyles, talus and calcaneus, which have been determined to have appropriate strength for these procedures.1 This, along with specific donor- and graft-selection criteria, ensures the high density and optimized strength necessary to maintain the deformity correction during impaction as well as throughout the healing/incorporation process.