Experimental Modeling of Combined and Sequential Use of Transosseous and Intramedullary Blocking Osteosynthesis

Background. The introduction of the combined and sequential application of transosseous and intramedullary blocked osteosynthesis in limb lengthening requires an experimental study of the features of distraction regenerate. For small animals (in particular rabbits), special models are required.Aims. To develop experimental models of sequential and combined use of transosseous and intramedullary osteosynthesis in limb lengthening and substantiate their effectiveness.Materials and methods. A comparative study was carried out on 30 rabbits of the Soviet Chinchilla breed. Experimental models of sequential (EM-1) and combined (EM-2) application of transosseous and intramedullary osteosynthesis with preservation of the apparatus during the fixation period to simulate blockage were studied in the main groups. For comparison, sequential (comparison model 1 – CM-1) and combined (comparison model 2 – CM-2) use of transosseous and intramedullary osteosynthesis with dismantling of the apparatus at the end of distraction were modeled. The control was a regenerate formed according to the classical Ilizarov method. Radiographs were performed in dynamics, CT and morphological studies – at the end of the fixation period.Results. It was noted that regenerates of the same type in structure were formed in the EM-1 and CM-1 groups, as in the EM-2 and CM-2 groups. With successive methods, the spindle-shaped form of the regenerate prevailed, the formation of a pronounced periosteal component was noted. Powerful cortical plates, according to morphological studies, are formed from the periosteal and intermediate zones. With combined techniques, the cortical plates are formed thinner and predominantly from the periosteal component, the shape of the regenerate is closer to fusiform. In the comparison groups, the total time of surgical interventions was 25–50 % longer, in 50 % of cases there was a loss of length or deformation of the regenerate.Conclusions. The developed models of sequential and combined use of transosseous and intramedullary osteosynthesis for limb lengthening with preservation of fixation with an apparatus to simulate blocking have proven to be reliable in terms of fixation and easy to use on small laboratory animals.

Частота и особенности функциональных биомеханических нарушений детского церебрального паралича среди детей коренного населения (хакасов), метисов и европеоидов Республики Хакасия

80 children’s were observed with infantile cerebral paralysis for searching frequency infantile cerebral paralysis and particularities functional biomehanic disordeved of children of native population (Hakass). The prevalence of the diagnosis ICP is in 6 time more in european group, as compared with hakas’s, and in 8 time more as compared with mestizo. On frequency of occurrence once forms ICP in all free groups on 1 place double hemiplegia; on 2 places hemiparesis form. Beside all children’s with ICP in 100 rate were discovered functional biomehanich damages, demanding corrections by methods manuall therepy.Обследовано 80 детей с детским церебральным параличом (ДЦП) для изучения частоты данного заболевания и особенностей функциональных биомеханических нарушений (ФБМН) среди детей коренного населения (хакасов), метисов и европеоидов. Преобладание ДЦП в группе европеоидов по сравнению с хакасами составило 6 раз, с метисами - 8 раз. По частоте встречаемости форм ДЦП во всех трех группах на первом месте двойная гемиплегия, на втором - гемипаретическая форма. У всех детей с ДЦП в 100% были выявлены ФБМН, требующие коррекции методами мануальной терапии

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