DEVELOPMENT OF A BIODEGRADABLE REGENERATIVE IMPLANT FOR THE TREATMENT OF LONG BONE COMMINUTED FRACTURES Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • There were approximately 1,620,000 surgical bone graft procedures in the United States in 2005 and 672,000 fracture reductions in 20061. The estimated economic costs for orthopedic injuries to upper and lower extremities collectively account for 17% ($68 billion) of total lifetime costs that originated in 20001. Over the past 15 years, significant efforts have focused on the development of bioactive, load-bearing polymeric materials designed to restore function within critical-sized bone defects. Traditional reconstructive approaches use autografting of the defects, but these approaches have significant limitations2. As a result, transfer of grafts greater than 2 cm are associated with an unacceptably high complication rate. Thus, the optimal skeletal extremity reconstruction would be one in which the reconstruction is performed with material that may be taken off the shelf to eliminate donor site morbidity, but is degradable and resorbable affording incorporation into the host.

name of conference

  • Volume 1A: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms; Active and Reactive Soft Matter; Atherosclerosis; BioFluid Mechanics; Education; Biotransport Phenomena; Bone, Joint and Spine Mechanics; Brain Injury; Cardiac Mechanics; Cardiovascular Devices, Fluids and Imaging; Cartilage and Disc Mechanics; Cell and Tissue Engineering; Cerebral Aneurysms; Computational Biofluid Dynamics; Device Design, Human Dynamics, and Rehabilitation; Drug Delivery and Disease Treatment; Engineered Cellular Environments

published proceedings

  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME SUMMER BIOENGINEERING CONFERENCE - 2013, PT A

author list (cited authors)

  • Bergerson, C. M., & Moreno, M. R.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Bergerson, Christie M||Moreno, Michael R

publication date

  • January 2014