Dr. Constance R Chu MD
Orthopedist
5230 Centre Ave Suite 415 Pittsburgh PA, 15232Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Constance Chu is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Chu specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Chu tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1992
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recovery of chondrocyte metabolic activity after thermal exposure.
- Hand-held arthroscopic optical coherence tomography for in vivo high-resolution imaging of articular cartilage.
- Mini-pig fresh osteochondral allografts deteriorate after 1 week of cold storage.
- p38 MAPK and COX2 inhibition modulate human chondrocyte response to TGF-beta.
- Adenoviral-mediated transfer of TGF-beta1 but not IGF-1 induces chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in pellet cultures.
- Controlled release of bioactive TGF-beta 1 from microspheres embedded within biodegradable hydrogels.
- Tonic activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha in avascular articular cartilage and implications for metabolic homeostasis.
- In vitro exposure to 0.5% bupivacaine is cytotoxic to bovine articular chondrocytes.
- Controlled in vivo degradation of genipin crosslinked polyethylene glycol hydrogels within osteochondral defects.
- Lidocaine exhibits dose- and time-dependent cytotoxic effects on bovine articular chondrocytes in vitro.
- Optimizing CO2 normalizes pH and enhances chondrocyte viability during cold storage.
- The role of the biochemical and biophysical environment in chondrogenic stem cell differentiation assays and cartilage tissue engineering.
- Sustained hypoxia enhances chondrocyte matrix synthesis.
- Injectable in situ forming biodegradable chitosan-hyaluronic acid based hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering.
- Novel multiarm PEG-based hydrogels for tissue engineering.
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