Autologous conditioned plasma. The effect on motility and painafter arthroscopic surgery of coronoid dysplasia lesions in dogs

Abstract

The aim of this study was toinvestigate the possible beneficial effect of ACP on pain and motility of theelbow after arthroscopic surgery of coronoid dysplasia lesions using forceplate analysis as an objective means to evaluate locomotion. Six dogs receiveda single dose of ACP during arthroscopic surgery and were followed for 26weeks. Dogs were guided over a force plate before surgery and after 4, 12 and26 weeks. Symmetry indexes and data from six healthy control dogs were used forcomparing the data. Results showed the most improvement of SI data at week 12,after week 12 the SI decreased. Visually the dogs improved, only 2 out of 6were still visually lame. There was a statistically significant differencebetween the control group and the ACP group in week 0 and week 4. Nosignificant differences were found between week 0 and week 26, only visualimprovement and improvement on clinical examination for range of motion andpain. In the final study the ACP dogs will be compared with dogs that hadarthroscopic surgery but did not receive ACP. With these data no conclusionsabout the beneficial effects of ACP can be made.