Treatment to improve the incorporation of bone grafts

2002/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Medikuntza

F discovers that the treatment of shock waves inside bone grafts to rabbits radically increases vascularization. J. González, doctor from Pamplona. After two types of fractures, bone grafts are essential: on the one hand they are fragmented, they are small in size and do not problems, as they are added very quickly. On the other hand, grafts are larger or more structural: they are usually bone fragments of a corpse.

After the experiment with 45 rabbits, the Navarrese doctor has discovered that the treatment of shock waves affects the vascularization of bone grafts: the number of vascularization channels in treated rabbit bone grafts (both automents and allotments) is much higher than in those who have not received this treatment.

So far this treatment has only been used in kidney stones and pathological orthopedics.