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Scientific Update | November 2016

  • Morselized Bone compared to Intact Bone

    Creeping Substitution vs. Fracture Healing

Background

Bone remodelling is a dynamic process that involves a combination of an osteoconductive functional matrix, living cells that produce osteoinductive growth factors and osteogenetic cells that form new bone.

Autograft is defined as bone tissue transferred from one site to another in the same individual. Autograft has traditionally been the gold standard in bone grafting because it is proven and predictable.

Autograft is an osteoconductive matrix and works because:

  • Cells are harvested with the transplanted matrix structure.
  • Cells can migrate within the transplanted matrix from the peripheral blood infrastructure.
  • Cells can mobilize from the marrow space and home to the transplanted matrix (i.e. vasculogenesis) drive osteoinduction and osteogenesis.

In short, CELLS GROW BONE!

Commonly employed types of autograft are derived from the Iliac crest and Tibial plateau. Normal physiologic bone healing undergoes a cascade of three overlapping phases:

  1. Hemostasis & Inflammation
  2. Proliferation
  3. Remodelling

Autophagy is a cellular housekeeping mechanism that is responsible for the removal of necrotic tissue, dead cells, neutrophils and dysfunctional intracellular proteins. Autophagy occurs during the inflammation phase of healing. (1)

Experiments demonstrate that the flow of blood through compact bone depends predominantly on an intact blood supply from the marrow. In living bone, unimpaired microcirculation is indispensable for the viability of bone cells, the production of new bone substance, and the regulation of bone metabolism. (2,3)

Morselized bone compared to intact bone

Bones are dynamic, viable, highly organized living tissue. Harvesting autograft in pieces dramatically disrupts this highly organized structure and supporting microvasculature of the bone. Such autologous cancellous bone pieces are osteoconductive, osteoinductive and osteogenic.

These grafts heal by means of creeping substitution. Transplanted and migrating cells drive peripheral and internal resorption by removing the transplanted matrix over time through the process of autophagy. Subsequently, during the remodelling phase, cells form a callus in place of the resorbed tissue and then structured living bone. (2,3) Harvesting an intact cancellous bone dowel which does not disrupt the highly-organized living tissue of the bone is different from transplanting pieces of bone. Such grafts that maintain the micro-vascular within the graft do not show extensive resorption, callus formation or remodelling. (2,3) The inherent difference is based on the ability of intact bone to exploit the biology of normal fracture healing rather than through creeping substitution that is fundamental to the incorporation of a non-vascularized graft. (2)

Research demonstrates the enhanced survival of a free bone graft as long as its primary blood supply is preserved or re-constituted. A living bone graft will shorten the time for bony union because the reconstructed bone is comparable to a bone with a double fracture. (2,3) Allogeneic or synthetic bone chips hydrated with marrow can be packed around the living bone graft/dowel to accelerate anastomosis into the graft and minimize the amount of morbidity. (2,3)

Combination bone grafts

Vascularized and cancellous autograft show optimal skeletal incorporation but are limited by morbidity concerns.(4) Using the Marrow Cellution graft delivery syringe and the Marrow Cellution Bone Dowel Harvest device, the clinician can create a combination graft of a vascularized intact bone dowel in the center of the graft surrounded by allogeneic, autologous or synthetic bone chips hydrated with marrow aspirate.

Higher Quality… Less Quantity… Delivered Appropriately Minimizes Host Morbidity.

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References:

(1) Frieri M, et al. Wounds, burns, trauma, and injury. Wound Medicine, 13 (2016) 12-17.

(2) Ostrup LT, et al. Distant transfer of a free, living bone graft by micro-vascular anastomoses. An experimental study. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1974 Sep; 54(3): 274-85.

(3) Taylor GI, et al. The free vascularized bone graft. A clinical extension of microvascular techniques. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1975 May;55(5):533-44.

(4) Bauer TW, et al. Bone graft materials. An overview of the basic science. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2000 Feb;(371):10-27.

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