Diagnostic prediction of ovine fracture healing outcomes via a novel multi-location direct electromagnetic coupling antenna.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Expedient prediction of adverse bone fracture healing (delayed- or non-union) is necessary to advise secondary treatments for improving healing outcome to minimize patient suffering. Radiographic imaging, the current standard diagnostic, remains largely ineffective at predicting nonunions during the early stages of fracture healing resulting in mean nonunion diagnosis times exceeding six months. Thus, there remains a clinical deficit necessitating improved diagnostic techniques. It was hypothesized that adverse fracture healing expresses impaired biological progression at the fracture site, thus resulting in reduced temporal progression of fracture site stiffness which may be quantified prior to the appearance of radiographic indicators of fracture healing (i.e., calcifi

SUBMITTER: Wolynski JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421979 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature