STUDY DESIGN: Randomized animal model study. PURPOSE: Posterolateral spinal fusion represents a common surgical procedure in the United States. The effect of bisphosphonate administration in these patients is poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to determine whether local administration of bisphosphonate by soaking bone autograft would affect the apparent bone density or structural properties of the fusion mass in a rat model of posterolateral spinal fusion. METHODS: 36 Spring Dawley rats underwent L4-5 posterolateral spinal fusion with bone autograft. These rats were divided into three groups, two experimental groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups underwent spinal fusion with morselized vertebral cortical and cancellous autograft soaked in zoledronic acid solution; one group 20 mcg/mL, another 200 mcg/mL. The control group underwent L4-5 spinal fusion with cancellous allograft soaked with saline. At 8 weeks, the rats were euthanized for analysis. Evaluations consisted of micro-CT scanning, four-point bending biomechanical testing, histology, and radiographs. RESULTS: Both of the experimental groups showed statistically significant increase in apparent bone density and bone volume fraction at the fusion mass. Biomechanical measures revealed a trend for improvement in the experimental groups, but these did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: This data suggest that locally administered bisphosphonate medications result in increased apparent bone density and bone volume fraction at the fusion mass in posterolateral spinal fusion, and that there appear to be no deleterious consequences with regards to the stiffness or maximum load to failure of the fusion mass under flexion bending evaluation.
STUDY DESIGN: Randomized animal model study. PURPOSE: Posterolateral spinal fusion represents a common surgical procedure in the United States. The effect of bisphosphonate administration in these patients is poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to determine whether local administration of bisphosphonate by soaking bone autograft would affect the apparent bone density or structural properties of the fusion mass in a rat model of posterolateral spinal fusion. METHODS: 36 Spring Dawley rats underwent L4-5 posterolateral spinal fusion with bone autograft. These rats were divided into three groups, two experimental groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups underwent spinal fusion with morselized vertebral cortical and cancellous autograft soaked in zoledronic acid solution; one group 20 mcg/mL, another 200 mcg/mL. The control group underwent L4-5 spinal fusion with cancellous allograft soaked with saline. At 8 weeks, the rats were euthanized for analysis. Evaluations consisted of micro-CT scanning, four-point bending biomechanical testing, histology, and radiographs. RESULTS: Both of the experimental groups showed statistically significant increase in apparent bone density and bone volume fraction at the fusion mass. Biomechanical measures revealed a trend for improvement in the experimental groups, but these did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: This data suggest that locally administered bisphosphonate medications result in increased apparent bone density and bone volume fraction at the fusion mass in posterolateral spinal fusion, and that there appear to be no deleterious consequences with regards to the stiffness or maximum load to failure of the fusion mass under flexion bending evaluation.
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