Session III - Fracture Healing Friday, October 22, 1999

Moderator: Kenneth D. Johnson, MD
3:58 pm Is Human Fracture Hematoma Inherently Angiogenic?

John T. Street, FRCSI; Jaing H. Wang, PhD; Abel Wakai, FRCSI; Anthony McGuinness, FRSCE; H. Paul Redmond, FRCSI, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland

4:04 pm Fracture Healing is Modulated by Nitric Oxide

Ashish Dhar Diwan, MD; Min-Xia Wang; George A. C. Murrell, MD, Orthopaedic Research Institute, St. George Hospital, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

4:10 pm Effect of Commonly Used Locally Applied Antibiotics on Human Fibroblast, Lymphocyte-like, and Osteoblast-like Cells In-vitro

Theodore Miclau, MD; Gayle E. Lester, PhD; Matthew L. Edin, BS; David P. Fitzgerald, BS; Eytan Alpern, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA

4:26 pm Feasibility of a Gene Therapy Approach for the Treatment of an Atrophic Non-union: An Experimental Study in Rabbits

Christian Lattermann, MD; Janey D. Whalen, PhD; Axel Baltzer, MD; Kurt R. Weiss; Christopher H. Evans, PhD, DSc; Paul D. Robbins, PhD; Gary S. Gruen, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Orthopaedic Department, Pittsburgh, PA

4:32 pm ·*Recombinant Growth Hormone Accelerates the Healing of Segmental Bone Defects: An Animal Study in Minipigs

Stefan Kolbeck, MD; Hermann Bail, MD; Kirsten Raun, PhD; (e-NOVO Nordisk A/S Copenhagen, Denmark) Gerhard Schmidmaier, MD; Norbert P. Haas, MD; Michael Raschke, MD, Department of Trauma & Reconstructive Surgery, Charité, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

4:38 pm *The Local Application of Growth Factors like IGF-1 and TGF-ß1 from a Biodegradable Poly(D,L-Lactide) Coating of Implants Increases Fracture Healing

Gerhard Schmidaier, MD (a-DFG-German Society for Research); Michael Raschke, PD (a-DFG-German Society for Research); Hermann Bail, MD (a-DFG-German Society for Research); Stefan Kolbeck, MD (a-DFG-German Society for Research); Norbert P. Haas, MD (a-DFG-German Society for Research), Department of Trauma & Reconstructive Surgery, Charité, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany