Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate Harvest and Delivery With a Neonatal Nasogastric Tube: A Simple Technique in Hip Arthroscopy
Source: ScienceDirect
In the past 10 to 15 years, there has been an increasing interest in using orthobiologics to address pathologies of the hip. The use of bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) showed greater functional improvement in patients with moderate cartilage injuries who had a labral repair than patients without BMAC injection. In hip arthroscopy and preservation, difficulty is encountered during the bone marrow harvest and administration into the hip joint with distraction. Therefore, orthopaedic surgeons need a reliable and reproducible technique to safely administer BMAC in the hip joint to achieve the best results. With this technique, we want to show that BMAC harvest and administration with a neonatal nasogastric feeding tube is easy, safe, and reproducible.
