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ReviewJournal of inflammation research2020

Inflammation, Bone Healing and Osteonecrosis: From Bedside to Bench.

Stuart B Goodman, Masahiro Maruyama

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Review in Journal of inflammation research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stuart B GoodmanDepartments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1919-3717
Masahiro MaruyamaDepartments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1339-0023
Stanford University · US

Funding

Wear Particle Disease and NF-kappa B SignalingR01AR063717 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, STUART B · 2012 to 2021
$3.5M
Tissue Engineering Approaches for Improved Treatment of Early Stage Osteonecrosis of the HipR01AR072613 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, STUART B, YANG, YUNZHI · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
Customized MSCs to Enhance Healing of Bone DefectsR01AR073145 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, STUART B · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR063717NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR072613NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR073145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteonecrosis of the epiphyseal and metaphyseal regions of major weight-bearing bones of the extremities is a condition that is associated with local death of bone cells and marrow in the afflicted compartment. Chronic inflammation is a prominent feature of osteonecrosis. If the persistent inflammation is not resolved, this process will result in progressive collapse and subsequent degenerative arthritis. In the pre-collapse stage of osteonecrosis, attempt at joint preservation rather than joint replacement in this younger population with osteonecrosis is a major clinical objective. In this regard, core decompression, with/without local injection of bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC), is an accepted and evidence-based method to help arrest the progression and improve the outcome of early-stage osteonecrosis. However, some patients do not respond favorably to this treatment. Thus, it is prudent to consider strategies to mitigate chronic inflammation concurrent with addressing the deficiencies in osteogenesis and vasculogenesis in order to save the affected joint. Interestingly, the processes of inflammation, osteonecrosis, and bone healing are highly inter-related. Therefore, modulating the biological processes and crosstalk among cells of the innate immune system, the mesenchymal stem cell-osteoblast lineage and others are important to providing the local microenvironment for resolution of inflammation and subsequent repair. This review summarizes the clinical and biologic principles associated with osteonecrosis and provides potential cutting-end strategies for modulating chronic inflammation and facilitating osteogenesis and vasculogenesis using local interventions. Although these studies are still in the preclinical stages, it is hoped that safe, efficacious, and cost-effective interventions will be developed to save the host's natural joint.

Indexed as

bone healingchronic inflammationinflammationosteogenesisosteonecrosisvasculogenesis

Identifiers

PMID33223846
PMCPMC7671464
OpenAlexW3106139692

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