Patient-specific medical systems, devices, and methods

A computer-implemented method for providing patient-specific medical care, the method comprising:

• receiving patient data for a patient, the patient data including one or more images of the patient's spinal region showing the patient's native anatomical configuration;
• analyzing the patient data to identify one or more native spine metric values to be corrected, the one or more adjusted spine metric values including at least one of lumbar lordosis, Cobb angle, one or more coronal parameters, one or more sagittal parameters, and/or one or more pelvic parameters;
• determining a corrected anatomical configuration of the patient's spinal region based on the identified one or more native spine metric values, wherein the corrected anatomical configuration is associated with one or more adjusted spine metric values that are different than the corresponding native spine metric values associated with the native anatomical configuration;
• creating a virtual model of the spinal region showing the patient's native anatomical configuration;
• generating a surgical plan for achieving the corrected anatomical configuration, the surgical plan including (a) one or more images of the updated virtual model of the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration, (b) the one or more adjusted spine metric values associated with the corrected anatomical configuration, and (c) identification of at least two vertebral levels to be involved in a surgical procedure for achieving the corrected anatomical configuration;
• transmitting the surgical plan for surgeon review and approval;
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• after receiving surgeon approval of the surgical plan, designing at least two patient-specific three-dimensional virtual intervertebral implants that (A) fit one or more three-dimensional virtual spaces in the virtual model, wherein the one or more three-dimensional virtual spaces are between vertebrae at the at least two vertebral levels and (B) anatomically match topography of virtual endplates of the virtual vertebrae, so as to achieve the corrected anatomical configuration.

A system for providing patient-specific medical care, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving patient data for a patient, the patient data including one or more images of the patient's spinal region showing the patient's native anatomical configuration;
• creating a virtual model of the spinal region showing the patient's native anatomical configuration, wherein the virtual model includes spatial relationships between adjacent three-dimensional virtual vertebrae of the virtual model;
• analyzing the patient data and/or the virtual model to identify one or more native spine metric values to be corrected, the one or more adjusted spine metric values including at least one of lumbar lordosis, Cobb angle, one or more coronal parameters, one or more sagittal parameters, and/or one or more pelvic parameters;
• determining a corrected anatomical configuration of the patient's spinal region based on the identified one or more native spine metric values, wherein the corrected anatomical configuration is associated with one or more adjusted spine metric values that are different than the corresponding native spine metric values associated with the native anatomical configuration;
• updating the virtual model of the spinal region to illustrate the corrected anatomical configuration;
• generating a surgical plan for achieving the corrected anatomical configuration;
• transmitting the surgical plan for surgeon viewing of (a) multiple images, from different viewing positions, of the updated virtual model of the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration, (b) the adjusted spine metric values for multiple vertebral levels along the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration, and (c) idnetification of one or more of the vertebral levels to be involved in a surgical procedure for achieving the corrected anatomical configuration;
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• after receiving surgeon approval of the surgical plan, designing one or more patient-specific virtual intervertebral implants that at least partially fill respective three-dimensional virtual spaces between vertebrae at the respective one or more vertebral levels to achieve the corrected anatomical configuration.

A computer-implemented method for providing patient-specific medical care, the method comprising:

• receiving patient data for a patient, the patient data including one or more images of the patient's spinal region showing the patient's native anatomical configuration;
• creating, using computer aided design software, a three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the patient's native anatomical configuration;
• analyzing the patient data and/or the three-dimensional virtual model to identify one or more native spine metric values to be corrected, the one or more native spine metric values including at least one of lumbar lordosis, Cobb angle, one or more coronal parameters, one or more sagittal parameters, and/or one or more pelvic parameters;
• determining a corrected anatomical configuration for the patient's spinal region based on the identified one or more native spine metric values;
• generating a corrected three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration and one or more corrected native spine metric values;
• generating a surgical plan including
• (a) multiple native images, from different viewing positions, of the three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the native configuration,
• (b) the one or more native spine metric values for multiple identified vertebral levels in the multiple native images,
• (c) multiple corrected images, from different viewing positions, of the corrected three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration,
• (d) the one or more corrected native spine metric values for the multiple identified vertebral levels depicted in the multiple corrected images, and
• (e) identification of one or more of the vertebral levels to be surgically corrected for achieving the one or more corrected native spine metric values;
• transmitting the surgical plan for viewing by a surgeon to visually compare the three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the native configuration and the corrected three-dimensional virtual model of the spinal region in the corrected anatomical configuration;
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• after receiving surgeon approval of the surgical plan, designing one or more patient-specific virtual intervertebral implants for implantation at the one or more vertebral levels to achieve the corrected anatomical configuration.