Additive manufacturing for in situ repair of osteochondral defects
Cohen, Daniel L; Lipton, Jeffrey I; Bonassar, Lawrence J; Lipson, Hod; Cohen, Daniel L; Cornell University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ithaca, NY, USA; Lipton, Jeffrey I; Cornell University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ithaca, NY, USA; Bonassar, Lawrence J; Cornell University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ithaca, NY, USA; Cornell University, Biomedical Engineering, Ithaca, NY, USA; Lipson, Hod; Cornell University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ithaca, NY, USA; Cornell University, Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Ithaca, NY, USA;
Журнал:
Biofabrication
Дата:
2010-09-01
Аннотация:
Tissue engineering holds great promise for injury repair and replacement of defective body parts. While a number of techniques exist for creating living biological constructs in vitro, none have been demonstrated for in situ repair. Using novel geometric feedback-based approaches and through development of appropriate printing-material combinations, we demonstrate the in situ repair of both chondral and osteochondral defects that mimic naturally occurring pathologies. A calf femur was mounted in a custom jig and held within a robocasting-based additive manufacturing (AM) system. Two defects were induced: one a cartilage-only representation of a grade IV chondral lesion and the other a two-material bone and cartilage fracture of the femoral condyle. Alginate hydrogel was used for the repair of cartilage; a novel formulation of demineralized bone matrix was used for bone repair. Repair prints for both defects had mean surface errors less than 0.1 mm. For the chondral defect, 42.8 ± 2.6% of the surface points had errors that were within a clinically acceptable error range; however, with 1 mm path planning shift, an estimated ∼75% of surface points could likely fall within the benchmark envelope. For the osteochondral defect, 83.6 ± 2.7% of surface points had errors that were within clinically acceptable limits. In addition to implications for minimally invasive AM-based clinical treatments, these proof-of-concept prints are some of the only in situ demonstrations to-date, wherein the substrate geometry was unknown a priori. The work presented herein demonstrates in situ AM, suggests potential biomedical applications and also explores in situ-specific issues, including geometric feedback, material selection and novel path planning techniques.
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