It is named after researchers from Sechenov University of the Russian Ministry of Health and engineers from Moscow State Technical University. Bauman has developed a highly sensitive method for diagnosing osteoarthritis (deforming arthrosis or simply arthrosis) in the early stages; this was reported to socialbites.ca of the Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease in which articular cartilage is destroyed. This leads to acute chronic pain and inflammation. The vast majority of joints affected are the knee, hip, shoulder, and first metatarsophalangeal (big toe) joints.
Often for the diagnosis of the disease in the early stages, an assessment of the content of the main components (water and collagen) of the extracellular matrix of cartilage tissue is used. However, objective diagnostic methods are not available today.
The authors used optical spectroscopy in the infrared range. Scientists have developed a unique solid-state tunable laser source that operates in the required mid-infrared range.
Tests have shown that this approach indeed allows successful assessment of the content of water and collagen components in cartilage tissue with high accuracy.
“Studies of the optical properties of biological tissues in the mid-infrared range have revealed significant potential for diagnostic tasks. Our results show the possibility of using this spectral range to develop diagnostic methods, particularly to monitor changes in the content of cartilage tissue components in degenerative diseases, including osteoarthritis.” Gleb Budylin, head of the Clinical Biophotonics Laboratory at Sechenov University, told socialbites.ca.
The resulting data could form the basis for new clinical techniques that will allow doctors to record the earliest changes in cartilage and take appropriate action.
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