Impact of Antibiotic-Loaded PMMA Spacers on the Osteogenic Potential of hMSCs

• Main Authors: Jakob Hofmann (Author), Tim Niklas Bewersdorf (Author), Ulrike Sommer (Author), Thomas Lingner (Author), Sebastian Findeisen (Author), Christian Schamberger (Author), Gerhard Schmidmaier (Author), Tobias Großner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antibiotic-loaded PMMA bone cement is frequently used in modern trauma and orthopedic surgery. Although many of the antibiotics routinely applied are described to have cytotoxic effects in the literature, clinical experience shows no adverse effects for bone healing. To determine the effects of anti...