- Any medical condition that makes the subject unsuitable for inclusion in the study, including, but not limited to patients with a diagnosis of concomitant injury that may interfere with healing; patients with clinically significant renal, hepatic, cardiac, endocrine, hematologic, autoimmune or any systemic disease or systemic infection which may make interpretation of the results difficult; patients who have undergone systemic administration within 30 days prior to implantation of any type of corticosteroid in the thumb, antineoplastic, immunostimulating or immunosuppressive agents;