Orthovita, Inc. Announces Presentation of Clinical Results Evaluating Vitagel(TM) Surgical Hemostat in Reducing Blood Loss During Primary Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orthovita, Inc. (NASDAQ: VITA), an orthobiologics and biosurgery company, is pleased to announce that Michael Bloomfield, M.D., of Cleveland Clinic, presented results of a study entitled “Prospective Randomized Evaluation of a Collagen/Thrombin and Autologous Platelet Hemostatic Agent During Total Knee Arthroplasty” on Friday, April 8, at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Mid-America Orthopaedic Association in Tucson, Arizona. Wael Barsoum, M.D. and Alison Klika, M.S. of the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH, served as the principal investigators of the study.

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