Biomechanical Comparison of Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy Performed With a Novel Titanium Alloy Locking Plate Construct vs. an Established Stainless-Steel Locking Plate Construct
| Autor: | Nate Miller, Seth Bleakley, Kirk C. McGilvray, Slobodan Tepic, Ross H. Palmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Orthodontics
Materials science fixation General Veterinary Veterinary medicine Distal fixation stifle Titanium alloy cranial cruciate ligament Locking plate TPLO Fixation (surgical) Clinical investigation Tibial-plateau-leveling osteotomy SF600-1100 orthopedics Veterinary Science Cadaveric spasm Surgical site infection Original Research locking plate |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Vol 8 (2021) Frontiers in Veterinary Science |
| ISSN: | 2297-1769 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fvets.2021.698159 |
| Popis: | A novel canine tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) fixation device was recently developed with design features such as titanium alloy (TA) material, distal monocortical screw fixation, and a point contact undersurface specifically targeted to reduce surgical site infection rates by ensuring tissue perfusion under the plate. The strength of the novel TPLO construct was compared with that of a predicate stainless steel (SS) locking plate construct with bicortical screws in 16 paired cadaveric canine limbs. The mean loads to failure were 716.71 ± 109.50 N (range 455.69–839.69 N) and 629.50 ± 176.83 N (range 272.58–856.18 N) in the TA and SS groups, respectively. The average ratio of the loads to failure of the paired specimens was 1.18 (p = 0.031). No failure of the TA constructs involved the distal fixation with monocortical screws. Substantial mechanical equivalence of this novel TA monocortical/bicortical fixation construct to an established SS bicortical screw fixation construct is demonstrated. Clinical investigation of potential merits of this novel TA, monocortical/bicortical locking screw/plate system is now warranted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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