title: Changes in dissipated energy and contact pressure after osteochondral graft transplantation.
abstract: Osteochondral autologous transplantation is frequently used to repair small cartilage defects. Incongruence between the osteochondral graft surface and the adjacent cartilage leads to changed friction and contact pressure. The present study wanted to analyze the differences between intact and surgically treated cartilage surface in respect to contact pressure and frictional characteristic (dissipated energy). Six ovine carpometacarpal joints were used in the present study. Dissipated energy during instrumentally controlled joint movement as well as static contact pressure were measured in different cartilage states (intact, defect, deep-, flush-, high-implanted osteochondral graft and cartilage failure simulation on a high-implanted graft). The best contact area restoration was observed after the flush implantation. However, the dissipated energy measurements did not reveal an advantage of the flush implantation compared to the defect and deep-implanted graft states. The high-implanted graft was associated with a significant increase of the mean contact pressure and decrease of the contact area but the dissipated energy was on the level of intact cartilage in contrast to other treatments where the dissipated energy was significantly higher as in the intact state. However the cartilage failure simulation on the high-implanted graft showed the highest increase of the dissipated energy.
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: Evgenij.Bobrowitsch@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors: Evgenij
authors: E
authors: Bobrowitsch
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: andrea.lorenz@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Lorenz
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: johanna.m.joerg@gmail.com.
authors: Johanna
authors: J
authors: Jörg
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: ulf.leichtle@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors: Ulf G
authors: UG
authors: Leichtle
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: nikolaus.wuelker@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors: Nikolaus
authors: N
authors: Wülker
authors: University Hospital Tübingen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomechanics Laboratory, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: christian.walter@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Walter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D052737:Carpometacarpal Joints / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery; D002356:Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation*; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017276:Friction / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D011312:Pressure; D012756:Sheep
keywords: Autologous; Biomechanics; Cartilage; Contact area; Contact pressure; Defect reconstruction; Dissipated energy; Friction; Graft; In vitro; Osteochondral mosaicplasty; transplantation