Swiss prosecutors have launched an investigation into a failed spinal implant approved by UK regulators.
The total disc replacement implant made by Cambridge-based Ranier Technology left patients across Europe in agony and needing further surgery after breaking inside their backs.
Dr Karsten Ritter-Lang, a surgeon who has removed more than 70 of the failed devices from patients in northern Germany, told Panorama after seeing reports on one of the baboon studies that using the implant in humans was “crazy”.
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Dr. med. Karsten Ritter-Lang M.D.
Diploma of medicine (Institut of Immunology Charité)
1988 – 1991
Doctorade of medicine (Institut of Immunology Charité)
Senior consultant of spinal surgery in two hospitals (DRK Berlin Westend and Stenum Hospital) and private practice in Potsdam,ENDOCERT Certified awarded the title and certification of Specialist for Trauma Surgery (Facharzt für Unfallchirurgie) in 2009
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