OTA 2004 Posters - Tibia

Use of rhBMP-2 in the Treatment of Open Tibial Shaft Fractures: Do Improved Clinical Outcomes Outweigh the Additional Expense of rhBMP-2?

Alan L. Jones, MD¹ (b- Medtronic, Sofamor Danek, e-Wyeth, Sofamor Danek); Marc F. Swiontkowski, MD² (b- Medtronic, Sofamor Danek, e-Wyeth); David W. Polly, MD²(a-Medtronic, Sofamor Danek, e-Wyeth,Sofamor Danek; Steven B. Duff, MS³ (e-Wyeth,Sofamor Danek); Stacey J. Ackerman, PhD⁴ (e-Wyeth,Sofamor Danek)

¹University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA

²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

³Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc., San Diego, California, USA

⁴Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

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Scientific Poster #16 Tibia and Tibial Plateau

The Incidence of Soft Tissue Injury in Tibial Plateau Fractures Requiring Surgical Treatment: An MRI Analysis of 103 Patients

Michael J. Gardner, MD; Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH;

Shahan Yacoubian, MD; David Geller, MD; Douglas Mintz, MD;

Hollis Potter, MD; David L. Helfet, MD; Dean G. Lorich, MD (all authors - n),

Hospital for Special Surgery and Jacobi Medical Center,

New York, New York, USA

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Scientific Poster #17 Tibia and Tibial Plateau

Prospective, Randomized Comparison of rhBMP-2/ACS in Combination with Allograft versus Autogenous Bone Graft in Healing Diaphyseal Tibial Fractures with Traumatic Bone Loss

Alan L. Jones, MD¹ (a-Wyeth); Robert W. Bucholz, MD¹(a-Wyeth);

Michael J. Bosse, MD²(a-Wyeth); Sohail K. Mirza, MD³(a-Wyeth);

Thomas R. Lyon, MD⁴ a-Wyeth); Lawrence X. Webb, MD⁵(a-Wyeth);

Andrew N. Pollak, MD⁶(a-Wyeth);

Jane Davis Golden, PT, MHP⁷ (d, e-Wyeth);

Alexandre Valentin-Opran, MD⁷ (d, e-Wyeth);

¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA;

²Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA;

³Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA;

⁴Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA;;

⁵Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA;

⁶R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;

⁷Wyeth Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Efficacy of Exchange Nailing in Management of Septic Tibial Nonunion

V. Thangamani, MD; Theodore Toan Le, MD; A. Bedi MD;

Madhav A. Karunakar, MD; James A. Goulet, MD (all authors - n),

Department of Orthopaedics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Scientific Poster #19 Tibia and Tibial Plateau

Does Open Reduction Increase the Chance of Infection During Nailing of Closed Tibia Shaft Fractures?

Michael J. Prayson, MD¹; Marilyn S. Palcic, PA-C¹; Peter Tang, MD, PhD²; Charles Gates, MS², Molly Vogt, PhD²; Justin Hawes, MD³ (all authors - n),

¹Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

²University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

³LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Scientific Poster #20 Tibia and Tibial Plateau

Importance of Accurate Distal Screw Targeting during Intramedullary Nailing

Erik W. Reber BSc¹; Steven Gartman² (both authors b-DePuy, Inc)

¹DePuy Trauma and Extremity Group, Warsaw, Indiana, USA

²Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA