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Christian M. Puttlitz is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular emphasis on surgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, epidemiology, biomedical engineering, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several specific topics, including bone fractures and treatments, tendon structure and treatment, shoulder injury and treatment, orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, elasticity and material modeling, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, and cardiac structural anomalies and repair.

Puttlitz has participated in publishing research in a range of academic venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Annals of Translational Medicine
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Acta Biomaterialia
  • JOR Spine
  • Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Among the recent papers associated with Christian M. Puttlitz are:

  • "Rotator cuff repair using a bioresorbable nanofiber interposition scaffold: a biomechanical and histologic analysis in sheep," 2021, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
  • "Osteoinductive 3D printed scaffold healed 5 cm segmental bone defects in the ovine metatarsus," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Enhanced bone formation in locally-optimised, low-stiffness additive manufactured titanium implants: An in silico and in vivo tibial advancement study," 2022, Acta Biomaterialia
  • "Different Passive Viscoelastic Properties Between the Left and Right Ventricles in Healthy Adult Ovine," 2021, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
  • "Mechanical characterization and viscoelastic model of the ovine temporomandibular joint Disc in indentation, uniaxial tension, and biaxial tension," 2020, Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials

Their work involves collaboration with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Kevin M. Labus
  • Jeremiah T. Easley
  • Kirk C. McGilvray
  • Benjamin C. Gadomski
  • Daniel P. Regan

Best Publications

  • Cortical bone trajectory for lumbar pedicle screws.

    B.G. Santoni;R.A. Hynes;K.C. McGilvray;G. Rodriguez-Canessa

  • Comparison of eight published static finite element models of the intact lumbar spine: Predictive power of models improves when combined together

    M. Dreischarf;T. Zander;A. Shirazi-Adl;C.M. Puttlitz

  • Biomechanical testing of posterior atlantoaxial fixation techniques.

    Robert P. Melcher;Christian M. Puttlitz;Frank S. Kleinstueck;Jeffrey C. Lotz

  • Biomechanical Evaluation of Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repairs: Double-Row Compared with Single-Row Fixation

    C. Benjamin Ma;Lyn Comerford;Joseph Wilson;Christian M. Puttlitz

  • Nanoindentation of polydimethylsiloxane elastomers: Effect of crosslinking, work of adhesion, and fluid environment on elastic modulus

    Fernando Carrillo;Shikha Gupta;Mehdi Balooch;Sally J. Marshall

  • Cellular basis for age-related changes in fracture repair.

    Chuanyong Lu;Theodore Miclau;Diane Hu;Erik Hansen

  • Bony ingrowth potential of 3D-printed porous titanium alloy: a direct comparison of interbody cage materials in an in vivo ovine lumbar fusion model

    Kirk C. McGilvray;Jeremiah Easley;Howard B. Seim;Daniel Regan

  • Constructs incorporating intralaminar C2 screws provide rigid stability for atlantoaxial fixation.

    Joseph Gorek;Emre Acaroglu;Sigurd Berven;Ahad Yousef

  • Fixation of osteoporotic distal fibula fractures: A biomechanical comparison of locking versus conventional plates.

    Todd Kim;Ugur M. Ayturk;Andrew Haskell;Theodore Miclau

  • Metamaterial-based wireless strain sensors

    Rohat Melik;Emre Unal;Nihan Kosku Perkgoz;Christian Puttlitz

  • Parametric convergence sensitivity and validation of a finite element model of the human lumbar spine.

    Ugur M. Ayturk;Christian M. Puttlitz

  • Intervertebral disc replacement maintains cervical spine kinetics.

    Christian M. Puttlitz;Marc Antoine Rousseau;Zheng Xu;Serena Hu

  • Acute biomechanical and histological effects of intradiscal electrothermal therapy on human lumbar discs.

    Frank S. Kleinstueck;Chris J. Diederich;William H. Nau;Christian M. Puttlitz

  • The effects of rod contouring on spinal construct fatigue strength.

    Colleen Lindsey;Vedat Deviren;Zheng Xu;Ru-Fang Yeh

  • Flexible metamaterials for wireless strain sensing

    Rohat Melik;Emre Unal;Nihan Kosku Perkgoz;Christian Puttlitz

  • Biomechanical comparison of posterior lumbar interbody fusion and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion performed at 1 and 2 levels.

    Christopher P. Ames;Frank L. Acosta;John Chi;Jaicharan Iyengar

  • Manual in-line stabilization increases pressures applied by the laryngoscope blade during direct laryngoscopy and orotracheal intubation

    Brandon G. Santoni;Bradley J. Hindman;Christian M. Puttlitz;Julie B. Weeks

  • Nested Metamaterials for Wireless Strain Sensing

    Rohat Melik;Emre Unal;Nihan Kosku Perkgoz;Brandon Santoni

  • Adhesive forces significantly affect elastic modulus determination of soft polymeric materials in nanoindentation

    Shikha Gupta;Fernando Carrillo;Cheng Li;Lisa Pruitt

  • Stability Analysis of Craniovertebral Junction Fixation Techniques

    Christian M. Puttlitz;Robert P. Melcher;Frank S. Kleinstueck;Juergen Harms

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilmi Volkan Demir
Hilmi Volkan Demir Bilkent University
Michael M. Todd
Michael M. Todd University of Minnesota
Jeffrey C. Lotz
Jeffrey C. Lotz University of California, San Francisco
Vijay K. Goel
Vijay K. Goel University of Toledo
Lisa A. Pruitt
Lisa A. Pruitt University of California, Berkeley
Sigurd Berven
Sigurd Berven University of California, San Francisco
Brian K. Kwon
Brian K. Kwon University of British Columbia
Antonius Rohlmann
Antonius Rohlmann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans-Joachim Wilke
Hans-Joachim Wilke University of Ulm
Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl
Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl Polytechnique Montréal

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