Implantable cartilage can help athletes recover their athletic ability
Professor Ku and his students needed to invent an artificial vascular material when doing research on blood flow. So they set up a company to do this project specifically. In the process, they synthesized this new type of implantable cartilage - Cartiva cartilage. This synthetic cartilage is mimicked by polyvinyl alcohol (the main component of contact lenses) to mimic natural cartilage synthesis for the treatment of arthritis. For the treatment of arthritis, the current standard of care is to fuse the joints of the metal plate and the bone tissue. This treatment method can only cause the patient to move within a certain range after rehabilitation.
Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the treatment of metal plates
This new treatment requires only opening the patient's joints first, and then the surgeon drills a small hole in a bone that is attached to the joint. The surgeon will insert the compressed Cartiva cartilage into the small hole. After the Cartiva cartilage is inflated, it can be firmly held in the small hole even if no fixture is needed.
This new type of synthetic cartilage can replace the metal plate, so that patients can fully recover their athletic ability. Because of the invention of this cartilage, the company they founded was acquired by Carticept Medical in 2008 and renamed Cartiva in 2011.
A set of Cartiva implants costs $4,500. Surgeons can use such a kit to treat arthritis in the big toe. A set of Cartiva implants includes 1/3 inch implantable cartilage, a drill bit and tools for compressing and implanting cartilage.
Figure 2 Synthetic cartilage
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