The Regents of the University of California;United States Government Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
发明人:
Samuel S. Murray,Elsa J. Murray,Jeffrey Wang,Keyvan Behnam
申请号：
US14755408
公开号：
US20160000860A1
申请日:
2015.06.30
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
The use of autogenous bone graft is the current gold standard in the 1.5 million bone-grafting surgeries performed annually in the United States. Although this practice has resulted in high rates of fusion success, it is associated with increased operative time and blood loss, along with a significant degree of donor-site morbidity. Additionally, in certain settings such as revision cases, multilevel constructs, or in patients with medical comorbidities, autogenous bone graft may exist in limited quantity and quality. This significant need for a suitable alternative to autogenous bone graft has stimulated great interest in the exploration of bone graft substitutes and extenders.
