NuVasive Selling Titanium-Based Precice Orthopedic Devices Again, Launches Recall To Update IFU

Meanwhile, steel-based Precice devices are still under a July recall action and remain off the market

02 Dec 2021

• By Shawn M. Schmitt

NuVasive Inc. is marketing its Precice specialized orthopedic devices made of titanium once again after voluntarily pulling them from the market in April over concerns about the safety of the steel-based version of the product. The firm also initiated a recall to address changes in the instructions for use for titanium Precice.

• Source: Alamy

NuVasive Inc.’s Precice specialized orthopedic devices made of titanium are being sold again nearly seven months after the company yanked them from shelves because of safety and biocompatibility concerns around the steel-based version of the device.

Precice is used on patients older than 18 to lengthen or compress their limbs, or transport segments of long bones....