Inadequate placement of osteochondral plugs may induce abnormal stress-strain distributions in articular cartilage - finite element simulations <sup> <sup>1</sup> </sup>
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Abstract
The transplantation of osteochondral (cartilage-bone) plugs is an alternative approach to treat local, full thickness cartilage defects in young patients. It is technically difficult to control the amount of the press fit tolerance and the position of the osteochondral (OC) plug in the recipient hole. Inadequate placement of the OC plugs may produce abnormal stress and strain distributions within the cartilage, and thus influence the regeneration of the injured cartilage site and the maintenance of opposing, healthy cartilage surfaces. In the present study, the influence of press fit tolerance and the placement of the OC plug on the joint contact mechanics was simulated using finite element methods. The joint was assumed to be axi-symmetric with a spherical femur and tibia and a cylindrical OC plug. Our simulations showed that small misplacements of the OC plug induced abnormal tension in the articular cartilage of the opposing, healthy cartilage surface. Such tension might induce unpredictable adaptations, or possibly degenerations, in the opposing cartilage layer. The contact stress profiles in the joint were predicted to change discontinuously across the plug/recipient interface, even when the plug was perfectly placed in the recipient hole, i.e., the plug's surface was aligned with the recipient surface. For a fixed coefficient of friction and a fixed fit tolerance, the maximal sliding force was predicted to vary with the size of the plug and reached a maximum at a specific plug diameter. The present simulations should be helpful for the design of instruments for osteochondral transplantation and placement of OC plugs, for understanding articular cartilage adaptation following osteochondral repair, and for providing insight into the mechanics at the transplant/recipient interface where proper integration of the plug into the joint is most problematic.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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