New Product: HemiCAP® Talar Resurfacing Implant

With all of the hype surrounding Ankle Joint Implants / TAR, a new implant has surfaced on the market (no pun intended) from Arthrosurface. The Hemicap Talar Resurfacing Implant is different in the sense that it is not a Total Ankle Replacement, but is designed for more specific or focal talar dome defects. Arthrosurface has taken the technology from their Hemicap DF System for 1st MPJ resurfacing and applied the same concept to the new talar implant. The device has a cobalt chrome articular surface with the undersurface coated in Titanium.

As stated on the Arthrosurface website, "The HemiCAP system is intended to provide an effective interim means for managing pain and disability in the middle-aged patient until a total joint replacement treatment option becomes more necessary, and is part of a clinical treatment strategy to help avoid early-age-revision scenarios. The prosthetic may also provide a treatment option for the older patient who may not tolerate the morbidity of a total joint replacement procedure."

This implant is not yet available for use in the United Sates or Canada. However, it is cleared in Europe and Arthrosurface has a program set up through which pateints can connect with physicains overseas. FootandAnkleFixation.com offers many informative services to foot and ankle surgeons, and we strive to provide up-to-date product news and information that we feel is pertinent to your practice. Unfortunatly, we do not include non FDA cleared products in our comprehenisve database. We will bring attention to those that are either on the verge of being cleared or that we feel are potentially industry changing. This is an exciting new option for reconstructive ankle surgery and we look forward to the opportunity when we can explore this implant further