Tendon and Ligament Injuries

Extracellular matrix scaffolds for treatment of large volume muscle injuries: A review

OBJECTIVE: Large muscular or musculotendinous defects present a dilemma because of the inadequacies of current treatment strategies. Extracellular matrices (ECM) are potential clinically applicable regenerative biomaterials. This review summarizes information from the preclinical literature evaluating the use of ECM for muscle regeneration in animal models of volumetric muscle loss (VML).

STUDY DESIGN: Literature review.

SAMPLE POPULATION: Animal models of VML in which surgical repair was performed with an ECM product, with or without added cell populations.

Category: Biologics - Rehabilitation - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Comparison of Autograft and Allograft with Surface Modification for Flexor Tendon Reconstruction: A Canine in Vivo Model

BACKGROUND: Flexor tendon injury is common, and tendon reconstruction is indicated clinically if the primary repair fails or cannot be performed immediately after tendon injury. The purpose of the current study was to compare clinically standard extrasynovial autologous graft (EAG) tendon and intrasynovial allogeneic graft (IAG) that had both undergone biolubricant surface modification in a canine in vivo model.

Category: Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Complications and outcomes associated with 13 cases of triceps tendon disruption in dogs and cats (2003-2014)

This study reports data from a larger number of cases of triceps tendon disruption.

Category: Elbow - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Revitalized and Synovialized Allograft for Intrasynovial Flexor Tendon Reconstruction in an in Vivo Canine Model

This study was to test our hypothesis that flexor tendon reconstruction with an allograft revitalized with bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) and synovialized with carbodiimide derivatized autologous synovial fluid (cd-SYN) would result in better digit functional restoration than the conventional allograft tendon.

Category: Biologics - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Why Owners Choose an Orthosis Over Stifle Surgery for Canine Cranial Cruciate Ligament Deficiency

The objective of this study was to describe the patient population of dogs with cranial cruciate ligament (CrCL) deficiency that were prescribed a stifle orthosis.

Category: Knee - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Development of a finite element model of the ligamentous cervical vertebral column of a Great Dane

Cervical spondylomyelopathy (CSM), also known as wobbler syndrome, affects mainly large and giant-breed dogs, causing compression of the cervical spinal cord and/or nerve roots.

Structural and dynamic components seem to play a role in the development of CSM; however, pathogenesis is not yet fully understood. Finite element models have been used for years in human medicine to study the dynamic behavior of structures, but it has been mostly overlooked in veterinary studies.

Category: Skull - Spine - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Intraobserver and interobserver agreement on the radiographical diagnosis of canine cranial cruciate ligament rupture

Even though radiography is one of the most frequently used imaging techniques for orthopaedic disorders, it has been demonstrated that the interpretation can vary between assessors. As such, the purpose of this study was to examine the intraobserver and interobserver agreement and the influence of level of expertise on the interpretation of radiographs of the stifle in dogs with and without cranial cruciate ligament rupture (CCLR).

Category: Imaging - Knee - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Aquatic treadmill water level influence on pelvic limb kinematics in cranial cruciate ligament-deficient dogs with surgically stabilised stifles

OBJECTIVE: To compare pelvic limb joint kinematics and temporal gait characteristics during land-based and aquatic-based treadmill walking in dogs that have undergone surgical stabilisation for cranial cruciate ligament deficiency.

Category: Knee - Rehabilitation - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Common calcaneal tenorrhaphy revision using a central gastrocnemius turnover aponeurotic flap technique in a cat

A5-year-old, male castrated, domestic short hair cat was referred to the authors' clinic because of wound dehiscence and exposure of tendon stumps after tenorrhaphy of the Achilles tendon.

Category: Hock - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Control of hemorrhage through the osteotomy gap during tibial plateau leveling osteotomy: 9 cases

OBJECTIVE: To describe a new technique to control intraoperative hemorrhage during tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) and report subsequent short-term and long-term complications.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case series.

ANIMALS: Nine dogs with arterial hemorrhage during TPLO.

Category: Knee - Tendon and Ligament Injuries