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Table 1 Examples of commercial products for tendon repair

From: Orthopaedic regenerative tissue engineering en route to the holy grail: disequilibrium between the demand and the supply in the operating room

Product

Company

Biomaterial

References

Ligament Advanced Reinforcement System (LARS)

LARS (Arc sur Tille, France)

Polyethylene terephthalate

(Naim et al. 2011; Gao et al. 2010; Dominkus et al. 2006)

GraftJacket Regenerative Tissue Matrix

LifeCell (Branchburg, New Jersey; distributed by Wright Medical Technology, Arlington, Tennessee)

Processed human dermis

(Wong et al. 2010; Bond et al. 2008; Barber et al. 2012)

Restore Orthobiologic Implant

DePuy Orthopaedics (Warsaw, Indiana)

Collagen-based patch from porcine small intestine submucosa

(Iannotti et al. 2006; Walton et al. 2007; Zheng et al. 2005)

Zimmer Collagen Repair Patch

(formerly: Permacol - Tissue Science Laboratories; Aldershot, Hampshire, UK)

Tissue Science Laboratories (Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom; distributed by Zimmer, Warsaw, Indiana)

Processed porcine dermis

(Badhe et al. 2008; Giannotti et al. 2014; Soler et al. 2007)

CuffPatch Bioengineered Tissue Reinforcement

Organogenesis (Canton, Massachusetts; marketed by Arthrotek, Warsaw, Indiana)

Multilayer sheet from porcine small intestine submucosa

(Abraham et al. 2000; Barber et al. 2006; Derwin et al. 2006)

X-Repair

Synthasome (San Diego, California)

Poly-L-lactic acid mesh

(McCarron et al. 2010; Proctor 2014; Smith et al. 2016)

Poly-Tape (Dacron)

Neoligaments (Xiros; Leeds, UK)

Polyethylene terephthalate

(Smith et al. 2016; Smith et al. 2017)

ArthroFlex

Arthrex (Naples, Florida)

Processed human dermis

(Beitzel et al. 2012; Petri et al. 2015)

Bio-Blanket

Stryker Orthopaedics (Mahwah, New Jersey)

Processed bovine dermis

(Chen et al. 2009; Ricchetti et al. 2012; Rotini et al. 2011)

Conexa

Tornier (Edina, Minnesota)

Processed porcine dermis

(Gupta et al. 2013; Shea et al. 2010; Xu et al. 2012)

SportMesh Soft Tissue Reinforcement

Biomet Sports Medicine (Warsaw, Indiana)

Poly(urethaneurea)

(Petriccioli et al. 2013; Barber and Aziz-Jacobo 2009)

TissueMend Soft Tissue Repair Matrix

TEI Biosciences (Boston, Massachusetts; marketed by Stryker Orthopaedics, Mahwah, New Jersey)

Collagen membrane derived from fetal bovine dermis

(Chen et al. 2009; James et al. 2010; Song et al. 2010)