Orthopédie

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L'orthopédie est la spécialité chirurgicale qui a pour objet la prévention et la correction des affections de l'appareil locomoteur, qui recouvrent les déformations et les malformations des os, des articulations, des muscles, des tendons et des nerfs. Le traitement chirurgical porte sur les membres supérieurs (épaule, coude et main), les membres inférieurs (hanche, genou et pied) et le rachis. Cette discipline est pratiquée par un chirurgien orthopédiste. Elle a fait de considérables progrès au avec notamment la prothèse totale de hanche de Charnley dans les années 1960, la prothèse de genou de Marmor et Insall et l'arthroscopie développée par H. Dorfmann en France dans les années 1980. Historique Bien que la pratique de la discipline remonte sans doute à une époque lointaine, le mot « orthopédie » est créé en 1741 par Nicholas Andry de Boisregard, à partir de deux mots grecs : ὀρϑός / orthos qui signifie « droit » et παιδεία (paideia) qui veut dire « éducation des enf

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Study of loading and delivery of drugs from various hydrogel matrices for orthopaedic applications

Tamsine Wills

Nowadays, there are still several unmet medical needs in the field of orthopaedic and trauma surgery leading to the incentive of finding alternative and innovative clinical therapeutics for the treatment of bone regeneration. For example, the entrapment of osteoinductive growth factors in a polymeric matrix with subsequent gradual release and local delivery to the site of trauma. This new technology inspired the activities relating to my project in which I investigated the potential use of synthetic hydrogels for the sustained in situ release of bioactives. The tasks relating to my project were divided into two main experiments; release assays and bioactivity assays. During the release assays, the in vitro release of three osteoinductive growth factors from five different synthetic hydrogels was investigated. The goal was to characterise the release of the protein drugs from the different polymers, selected on the basis of their swelling and degradation behaviour. The quantification of the released bioactives was assessed by performing an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), for which different parameters were optimised. As a result, release profiles of the different protein drugs from the different hydrogel formulations were obtained. Then, it was investigated if the growth factors were still biologically active or if incubation in synthetic matrices influenced their properties. This was assessed by performing bioassays during which the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity of a mouse myoblast cell line (C2C12 cells) was evaluated. Indeed, ALP is a marker of osteoblastic activity which indicates increased levels of osteogenesis, implying biological activity of the tested osteoinductive bioactives. These results gave a good representation of the effect of the synthetic hydrogels and their incubation in release buffer on the bioactivity of the incorporated protein drugs

2009

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Optische Augenlängenmessung für klinische Anwendungen

Beate Möller

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. The clouding of the human eye lens is called "Grauer Star" in German. In the industrialized countries this process of increased blindness is corrected by the surgical removal of the clouded lens and its replacement by a plastic lens (intraocular lens, IOL). Cataract surgery is the most frequent surgery worldwide. In Europe more than two million operations are performed annually. For the selection of an optimum replacement the refractive power of the lens is calculated from the radius of curvature of the cornea, the length of the eye and the anterior chamber depth. Therefore these data have to be measured before every surgery. Until now the length of the eye was measured exclusively by ultrasound in the clinical praxis. For this procedure the sound transducer has to be placed directly or via a water funnel onto the cornea. It was the aim of the work presented in this thesis to lay the framework for introducing into the clinical praxis a contact free optical length measurement of the eye. The basic parameters for the measurement were determined. Starting from the state of the art new solutions were found, implemented in a laboratory device, and tested clinically. A two-beam interferometer with light of short coherence length that had been developed at the University Vienna was analyzed and compared with the one-beam technique. Neglecting practical limitations due to the optical arrangement and assuming shot-noise limited detection the one-beam technique allows the measurement of reflected light that is a factor of two lower compared to the two-beam technique. From the point of view of detection both techniques are therefore equivalent. The advantage of the two-beam technique is its independence from the eye movement. Until now the two-beam technique utilizes for detection only 1 over 400 of the light reflected from the retina and 1 over 2500 to 1 over 4000 of the light reflected from the cornea. This causes the dynamic range to drop by 26 dB. Furthermore the noise of the electronics (excess noise) comes into play. In this work a novel concept for the optical configuration in the two-beam interferometer is presented. By using a diffractive lens cornea and retina are imaged simultaneously onto the detector and the losses of the light from the retina are minimized. The cornea is imaged with an efficiency of 5.6 per cent. In order to minimize the requirements on the patient the measuring time was shortened to 1 s. Therefore the scan speed was increased by a factor of four compared to the state of the art. In the laboratory device it fluctuated by 20 per cent. To keep the detection narrow band it was necessary to implement a signal processing that is largely independent of the scan speed. By using a synchronous demodulation of two 90 degrees phase-shifted channels that are added as vector quantities a filter with self-adjusting center frequency was created. Its bandwidth is 4 kHz with signal frequencies between 30 kHz and 90 kHz. This concept was realized as a compact slit-lamp head and tested clinically. A shot-noise limited detection with a dynamic range of 105 dB was achieved (input power 200 µW). On the healthy eye the signal-to-noise ratio was limited by the digitization range of 8 bit. On the eye with cataract the measuring was not limited by the degree of clouding any more. The optical lengths were determined along the line of sight. They agreed with the post operative results. In some cases refractive errors of more than 2 dpt would have been avoidable by determining the IOL from the measurement of the optical length of the eye. This technique allows a comfortable, contact free optical eye length measurement that works correctly in 95 per cent of all eyes with cataract. Additionally smaller post operative refractive errors can be achieved as compared with traditional techniques. These results were the basis for the development of the IOL-Master – a novel device for the cataract treatment – at the Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. With this device all biometric data can be measured in a non-contact fashion and intraocular lenses can be calculated and selected.

EPFL2001

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Total knee arthroplasty is nowadays one of the most important orthopedic surgery. It consists of a procedure in which parts of the knee are replaced by a prosthesis. The largest indication for total knee arthroplasty is osteoarthritis, a knee disease that can cause the cartilage of the femur and tibia to wear away, so that the bones rub together with use. The major risk factors for osteoarthritis are aging and obesity. Both the life expectancy and the obesity rate are increasing in the developed countries, thus the number of estimated total knee arthroplasties is growing over the years. Although over one million of prosthetic joints are implanted every year in the developed countries, none of them contains sensors to help the orthopedic surgeons in improving the precision of the replacement surgery. The goal of this study is to design an electronic system to be embedded inside a total knee prosthesis, in order to measure the force applied to it and its kinematics. Providing the orthopedic surgeons with quantitative data on the biomechanics of the prosthetic knee can help them in improving the implant precision and, as a consequence, could reduce the risk of an early revision surgery. In the frame of this thesis, we worked with the F.I.R.S.T. prosthesis by Symbios Orthopedie SA, that was instrumented with sensors and electronics to measure, process and transmit force and kinematics data to an external reader. The constraints in the design have been established by the medical doctors and the prosthesis manufacturer and the technical solutions adopted are presented. In order to simplify a future approval for human tests, we decided to keep the shape of the knee artificial joint. To achieve that, we put all the sensors and the electronics inside the middle part of the prosthesis, constituted of a polyethylene insert located between the metallic parts of the artificial joint and whose function is to reduce the rubbing. An original encapsulation was designed to guarantee the bio-compatibility of the instrumented prosthesis and to avoid a potentially dangerous contact between the electronics and the human body. This should be ensured even in case of extreme wearing of the polyethylene insert, that can occur some years after the prosthesis implant and is one of the main indications for a revision surgery. The sensors were tested by using mechanical simulators of the knee joint and validated by means of reference sensors. Different demonstrators have been designed, from the first, with only the sensors located inside the prosthesis and all the electronics fabricated in a large-scale outside of it, to the last miniaturized versions, that can be entirely embedded inside the prosthesis. Moreover, an autonomous sensor for balancing the ligaments tension during the knee replacement surgery was designed, fabricated and tested. Such a device could be an important help for the medical doctors during the surgery to improve the precision of the implant and, being not-implantable, could easily obtain an approval for human clinical trials.

EPFL2014

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Study of loading and delivery of drugs from various hydrogel matrices for orthopaedic applications

Tamsine Wills

2009

Optische Augenlängenmessung für klinische Anwendungen

Beate Möller

EPFL2001

EPFL2014