Bone Healing And Grafts Flashcards

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Primary osteons

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Form during bone growth

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Secondary osteons

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Form during remodeling

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Mechanisms of new bone formation

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Cutting cones
Intramembranous ossification
Endochondral ossification

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Cutting cones

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Primary bone healing + remodeling

Osteoclasts lead to remove bone, osteoblasts trail to lay down new bone

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Intramembranous ossification

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Does not require cartilage precursor

Increases width of bone

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Endochondral ossification

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Cartilage precursor

Chondrocyte hypertrophy —> calcification —> ossification

Increases bone length

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Prerequisites for bone healing

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Adequate blood supply
Interfragmentary stability
Absence of infection (or subclinical/well-controlled infection)

Bone formation requires low strain (<2%)

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Strain

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Change in length over length under an applied biomechanical force

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Goals of fracture stabilization

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Decrease interfragmentary strain

Decrease fracture gap

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Indirect bone healing

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  1. Hematoma formation
  2. Fibrocartilage callus formation
  3. Bony callus formation
  4. Bone remodeling
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Strain tolerance

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Granulation tissue: 100%
Cartilage: 10%
Lamellar bone: 2%

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Types of fracture healing

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  1. Direct (primary) healing: contact healing, gap healing
  2. Indirect (secondary) healing
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Direct (primary) bone healing

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Occurs only with anatomic reduction + rigid stability

***no micromovement

<2% interfragmentary strain + <1 mm fracture gap (<0.01 for contact healing)

Cutting cones, lack of callus formation

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Contact healing

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Occurs in zones of cortical bone contact (<0.01 mm gap)

Cutting cones, direct formation of lamellar bone in axial direction

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Gap healing

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<1mm, <2% strain

Initially filled with loose connective tissue

Osteoblasts deposit lamellar bone in gap

Cutting cones formed longitudinally

Secondary osteoblasts reconstruction

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Indirect (secondary) bone healing

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Less stable fractures
Callus formation to stabilize / decrease strain
Indirect healing through transformation of fibrous tissue and cartilage

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Stages of indirect bone healing

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  1. Inflammation (0-7 d)
  2. Repair (soft callus 1-3, bony callus 3-6)
  3. Remodel (> 8 wks to yrs)
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Inflammatory phase of indirect bone healing

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Hematoma formation
Revascularization
Resorption of fragment ends + hematoma

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Repair phase

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Hematoma —> granulation tissue

Granulation tissue —> fibrocartilage

Mesenchymal cells differentiate into chondrocytes or osteoblasts

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Remodeling phase

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Regain function / strength

Formation of new secondary osteons

External callus disappears

Reestablishment of medullary cavity

Secondary remodeling - involves cutting cones

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Osteogenesis

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Osteoblasts in bone graft material contribute to new bone growth

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Osteoinduction

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Bone graft recruits osteoprogenitor cells and induces new bone formation

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Osteoconduction

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Serves as a scaffold for osteoprogenitor cells

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Osteopromotion

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Enhancement of osteoinduction without possession of osteoinductive properties (rare, i.e. enamel matrix)

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Bone graft functions

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Osteogenesis
Osteoinduction
Osteoconduction
Osteopromotion
Structural support

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Bone graft indications

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Augment repair, speed healing, promote healing of non-unions / infected fractures

Enhancing healing (fracture, osteotomies, delayed/non-union)
Bone loss (fracture, excision from neoplasm)

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Bone graft sources

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Autograft
Allograft
Xeongraft

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Types of bone graft

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Cancellous bone
Cortical bone
Corticocancellous bone
Demineralized bone matrix
Synthetic bone grafts

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Cancellous bone graft

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Metaphyseal trabecular bone
Endosteal + marrow cells
Autogenous is gold standard

Properties: osteogenic, osteoinductive, osteoconductive

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Cortical bone grafts

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Strut of long bone providing mechanical support

Osteoconductive (i.e. provides scaffold)

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Harvesting bone grafts

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Cancellous - aseptic, prepare surgical site in advance, separate surgical instruments, drill hole through 1 cortex use currette to obtain cancellous bone

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Cancellous donor sites

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SA: lateral tubercle of proximal humerus; proximomedial tibia; craniodorsal iliac spine, subtrochanteric region of medial condole of femur

LA: ilium, sternum

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Bone graft substitutes

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Synthetics: calcium phosphate, hydroxyapatite, bio active glasses, polymers (osteoconductive)

Growth factors (BMP, TGF-B —> osteoinductive)

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Assesment of healing

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SA: 2 orthogonal views, 3/4 cortices with bridging callus

LA: 4+ views

Callus formation, appearance of fracture site, margins of fracture fragments, bone opacity/density, periosteal/endosteal reaction