| Graftjacket® Rotator
Cuff Tendon Reinforcement Scaffold
High Tensile Strength. Augments
Soft Tissue Repair. Converts to Host Tissue.
Surgical techniques for repair of rotator
cuff tears have improved dramatically in the last decade.
However, there are times when the quality of the tissue and/or
the mobilization of the tissue is insufficient to restore
function. It is in these instances that tissue grafts, both
autograft and allograft, have been employed in order to re-establish
the important force couple provided by the rotator cuff tendons.
If the musculotendinous junction and remaining
tendon of the rotator cuff muscle can be reattached to near
normal (10-15mm) position, then it is possible that an "augmentation
graft", not "interposition graft", can be incorporated
into the musculotendinous bone complex such that rotator cuff
healing and fixation can be enhanced.
GRAFTJACKET® Scaffold is composed of
biological substrate components including collagen types I,
III, IV, and VII, elastin, chondroitin sulfate,
proteoglycans, hyaluronic acid, laminin, tenacin, and fibroblast
growth factor.
Patented processing technology preserves
this biochemical matrix and results in an extracellular framework
that is completely intact. This intact matrix, complete with
preserved vascular channels, functions to support rapid revascularization
and cellular repopulation.
For more information on the GraftJacket®
Rotator Cuff Tendon Reinforcement Scaffold such as brochures,
articles, video etc., please contact
Ortotech directly or visit the official homepage
http://www.wmt.com/Physicians/Products/Biologics/
GRAFTJACKETRotatorCuff.asp
 
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