CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHICAL EVALUATION OF HEALING OF FRACTURE OF LONG BONES IN GOATS TREATED WITH BIOCERAMIC IMPLANTS
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2016-08-08
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Orthopaedic conditions leading to critical size bone defects like comminuted fractures, open fractures with necrotized bone fragments, bone tumours and osteomyelitis are always a great challenge to veterinary surgeons. Critical size defects do not heal during the lifetime of an animal and ended up with permanent lameness. Substitution of these defects with bone autografts or allografts had various drawbacks and demerits. Synthetic biomaterials like bioceramic graft was reported to be a promising aid in the treatment of critical size defects. Objective of the current study was to evaluate, clinically and radiographically, the healing of fractures of long bones in goats treated with triphasic ceramic coated hydroxyapatite impregnated with Strontium (Sr-HASi) as a bone scaffold.
The study was conducted in seven clinical cases of comminuted fractures in goats, presented to the Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Pookode, Wayanad, Kerala, during the period of August 2015 to June 2016. Animals for the study were selected irrespective of their breed, age, sex and body weight, but based on nature of fracture and critical size bone defect, after clinical, orthopaedic and radiological evaluation.
In all the animals under study, critical size bone defects, which resulted after surgical removal of loose, avascular fracture fragments were substituted with Sr-HASi of equal size. Postoperative clinical, orthopaedic, radiological, haematological and biochemical evaluation was conducted at every two weeks for a period of eight weeks. Lameness scoring, grading of weight bearing and physical examination of the affected limb were conducted as part orthopaedic examination. Orthogonal views of affected limb were evaluated for alignment, apposition and angulation of fracture fragments along with activity and architecture of the bone tissue.
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