Salman Matan / Dr. Andreas Gomall Week 2

 On Monday, I was able to go to the operating room with Dr. Gomall. He has seven patients who are undergoing different surgeries. I was able to watch six out of the seven surgeries he performed. One of the very interesting surgeries that he performed was implanting Matrix-Induced Chondrocyte Implantation (MACI). The performed surgery was Arthrotomy knee, autologous chondrocyte implantation; MACI implant stage 2 - right osteotomy tibial tubercle. This was amazing for me, as I’m interested in studying the macroscale structure of soft tissue biomechanics, especially cell-seeded hydrogels. The surgery went well, and I learned a lot as Dr. Gomall was explaining to me what he was doing, and he recommends his patients undergo MACI transplants. He told me if the patient has a healthy bone, and the damage is only on the cartilage then he recommends the use of either MACI or donor grafts. One of the other patients underwent Arthroscopy Knee revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction hamstring autograft versus semi-tendinosis allograft augmentation right, arthrotomy knee; osteochondral allograft with articulated juvenile cartilage right knee; arthroscopy knee meniscectomy, medial or lateral versus meniscal repair. This was interesting too as it required an extra hand (PA) to finish the surgery on time and under the best condition. PA was called to suture and get the right shape of the allograft to use for ACL repair. 





On Tuesday, I did work in the biomechanics lab while on Wednesday I went clinic with Dr. Gomall. On Thursday and Friday, I went to the biomechanics lab to create the 3D structure of the CT scan of 20 patients that underwent total shoulder replacement.

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