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Materialise Partners with University of Michigan and Tissue Regeneration Services for Clinical Trials of 3D Printed Tracheal Splint

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Materialise Partners with University of Michigan and Tissue Regeneration Services for Clinical Trials of 3D Printed Tracheal Splint

Reporter: Irina Robu, PhD

Dr. Scott Hollister, a biomedical engineering professor at University of Michigan and Dr. Glenn Green, otolaryngologit at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital invented a tracheal splint using 3D printing in 2012. The 3D printed trachea of a baby with tracheobronchomalacia (TBM),keeps the airway open until it can grow into a healty state and stay open on its own.  The splint dissolves and is absorbed in the body and the process can take up to three years. Dr. Hollister and Dr. Green partnered with Materialise and Tissue Regeneration systems to commercialize the device, starting with clinical trial involving involving 30 patients at Mott Children’s Hospital sometime next year.

According to Dr. Green“This agreement is a critical step in our goal to make this treatment readily available for other children who suffer from this debilitating condition.We have continued to evolve and automate the design process for the splints, allowing us to achieve in two days what used to take us up to five days to accomplish. I feel incredibly privileged to be building products that surgeons can use to save lives.”

The bioresorbable splints will be manufactured by Plymouth, Michigan startup Tissue Regeneration Systems, which received its first commercial product clearance from the FDA in 2013 after several years of product development.

SOURCE
http://3dprint.com/109725/materialise-uom-trs-partners/

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