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New Abstracts of the week

Dynamic Adaptation of Vertebral Endplate and Trabecular Bone following Annular Injury in a Rat Model of Degenerative Disc Disease

Spine J. 2018 Jun 7. pii: S1529-9430(18)30271-7. [Epub ahead of print]

Annulus injury-induced DDD leads to acute and progressive changes to the morphology and densitometry of bone in the adjacent vertebral bodies and endplates.

Small animal: Spine

Protocol changes to reduce implant-associated infection rate after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy: 703 dogs, 811 TPLO (2006-2014)

Vet Surg. 2018 May;47(4):481-489. doi: 10.1111/vsu.12796.

The protocol reported here may be used as a guide in clinics seeking to reduce their IAI rates after TPLO

Small animal: Fracture Fixation and Implants

Open Screw Placement in a 1.5 mm LCP Over a Fracture Gap Decreases Fatigue Life

Front Vet Sci. 2018 May 23;5:89. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00089. eCollection 2018.

Fracture fixation stability is compromised by an open screw hole directly over a fracture gap compared to the open screw hole being buttressed by bone in the model studied.

Small animal: Fracture Fixation and Implants

Incoming meetings and courses

September 12, 2018 to September 15, 2018

WVOC 2018

5th World Veterinary Orthopaedic Congress ESVOT-VOS

Barcelona, Spain

Full paper offered by V.C.O.T.

Vcot

Comparison of Three Methods to Quantify Laxity in the Canine Hip Joint

Bart J. G. Broeckx, Aldo Vezzoni, Evelien Bogaerts, Mileva Bertal, Tim Bosmans, Emmelie Stock, Dieter Deforce, Luc Peelman, Jimmy H. Saunders

Objectives: Comparison of PennHIP and a novel method to diagnose hip laxity, called the Vezzoni modified Badertscher distension device technique.