• Acta Orthop Scand · Oct 2003

    Effect of alendronate on bone ingrowth into porous tantalum and carbon fiber interbody devices: an experimental study on spinal fusion in pigs.

    • Xuenong Zou, Qingyun Xue, Haisheng Li, Mathias Bünger, Martin Lind, and Cody Bünge.
    • Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Spine Section-Department of Orthopaedics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. zxnong@hotmail.com
    • Acta Orthop Scand. 2003 Oct 1;74(5):596-603.

    AbstractRecent studies have reported that bisphosphonates reduce the resorption of grafted bone and inhibit bone resorption at a bone-implant interface. However, it is not known whether bisphosphonates affect bone ingrowth into porous biomaterial or spine fusion interbody devices with an autograft. In this study, 18 pigs (9 in each group) underwent anterior intervertebral lumbar arthrodeses at L2-3, L4-5 and L6-7. Each level was randomly allocated to one of the 3 implants: a solid piece of porous tantalum (Hedrocel), a porous tantalum ring or a carbon fiber cage both packed with an autograft. Alendronate was given orally to one of the groups. The radiographic and histological findings in the two groups 3 months after operation were similar in these devices. Histological examination showed that the original graft was entirely replaced by new trabecular bone in both groups. On histomorphometric analysis, the bone volume fraction, both inside the central hole of porous tantalum ring and in the porous tantalum, was larger in the pigs given alendronate than in the controls, but the fraction inside and around the central hole of the carbon fiber cage was not affected by this treatment. Short-term alendronate treatment, in a relatively low dose, does not impair the formation of new bone, but increases bone ingrowth into the central hole of the porous tantalum ring and the pores of the porous tantalum in this porcine model. This may be an effective way to enhance early biologic fixation of porous intervertebral implants.

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