INT Medical Kyphoplasty Kit

Vertebral compression fractures collapse the front of a vertebral body, causing pain and a forward stoop. Kyphoplasty treats them in two stages. A balloon is inflated inside the bone to push the collapsed trabeculae apart and create a cavity, sometimes restoring some lost height. Cement is then placed into that cavity.

The balloon provides control. In vertebroplasty, cement is forced directly into intact cancellous bone, which resists it, and the pressure needed is exactly what drives cement into places it should not go. A prepared cavity accepts cement at lower pressure, which is the main argument for the extra step. Cement escaping the vertebral body remains the complication that matters most in both procedures, since it can compress the spinal cord or travel through veins to the lungs.

Everything in this set serves the first part of that sequence. The channel must be accurate, because it passes through the pedicle,e with the spinal canal immediately medial to it. A needle that strays through the pedicle wall can reach the dura, and cement following that track has a direct route to the cord. For this reason, imaging guidance is used throughout, and each instrument is exchanged over the previous one rather than creating a new track. That is why the guide wire matters, and why the dimensional fit between components is worth checking rather than assuming. In some cases, bilateral access through both pedicles is used, which doubles the instrument requirement for that level.

Medigear.uk supplies the instructions for use with every order.

Dimensionally Coherent Instrument Chain

Guide wire through needle, drill and filler through dilator, and a wire longer than everything it sits inside. The stated figures fit together throughout.

Guide Wire Preserves the Track

Establishing the channel once and exchanging over a wire avoids repeated passes through the pedicle, which is where accuracy matters most.

Three Bone Needle Lengths

100, 130 and 150 mm cover different vertebral levels and patient builds from one set.

Three Tip Geometries

Diamond, bevel and trocar points behave differently in bone, with a bevel allowing the trajectory to be steered by rotation.

Shared Needles With the PVP Range

The ZT01 series appears in both INT kits, so a service running both procedures holds one needle reference set rather than two.

Dedicated Bone Drill

A drill bores the cavity track rather than relying on the needle alone, which is what a balloon requires.

Thin-Walled Cement Filler

At 3.4 mm outer diameter with a 0.275 mm wall, the filler maximises bore within the channel the dilator provides.

Consolidated Supply Through Medigear.uk

Medigear.uk will pursue the balloon, inflation device and injector references needed to complete a working kyphoplasty setup.

ZT01I Bone Needle

3.0 mm outer diameter at 100 mm length.

ZT01J Bone Needle

3.0 mm outer diameter at 130 mm length.

ZT01K Bone Needle

3.0 mm outer diameter at 150 mm length.

ZT02A Bone Cement Filler

3.4 mm outer diameter at 190 mm length, with a 0.275 mm wall.

ZT03A Dilator

4.2 mm outer diameter at 125 mm length, giving a 3.6 mm bore.

ZT04A Bone Drill

3.4 mm outer diameter at 180 mm length.

ZT05 Guide Wire

1.55 mm outer diameter at 268 mm length.

2.0 mm Bone Needle Bore

Sized to pass the supplied guide wire.

3.6 mm Dilator Bore

Sized to pass both the drill and the cement filler.

Diamond Tip Option

A symmetrical point that advances along a straight trajectory.

Bevel Tip Option

An asymmetrical point that can be steered by rotating the instrument.

Trocar Tip Option

A cutting point for penetrating cortical bone.

The INT Medical Spine Tool Kit provides the instruments that establish a kyphoplasty working channel, and it does that coherently. The guide wire, needle, dilator, drill, and cement filler all fit through one another as the stated dimensions require, and the needle references are shared with INT's vertebroplasty set. One point needs stating clearly. Kyphoplasty is defined by its balloon, which regulators name as an inflatable bone tamp, and neither a balloon nor an inflation device appears among these seven references. Sets of this composition are properly described as kyphoplasty guide systems rather than complete kyphoplasty systems. Medigear.uk will establish whether INT supplies the balloon and inflation device separately, along with materials, sterility status and UK conformity, before offering this range.