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Hydrogel implant is as effective as osteochondral autologous transplantation for treating focal cartilage knee injury in 24 months

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Created On: 18/02/2020

Hydrogel implant is as effective as osteochondral autologous transplantation for treating focal cartilage knee injury in 24 months

To find a treatment option to treat the knee joint focal cartilage lesion is very difficult.

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Key take away

The osteochondral autologous transfer is the most attractive surgical technique. However, it confers undesirable postoperative pain in the donor area. Thus, it is essential to develop new methods using biomaterials that could replace cartilage permanently. Therefore, the present study used a hydrogel implant that showed similar efficiency as the autologous osteochondral graft for treating knee joint focal cartilage lesions.

Background

To find a treatment option to treat the knee joint focal cartilage lesion is very difficult. No randomized clinical trial involving Hydrogel to manage the knee pain was present to date. This analysis involved the assessment and comparison of outcomes of hydrogel implant with autologous osteochondral transplantation (AOT) to treat knee joint focal cartilage lesions.

Source:

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy pp 1–8

Link:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00167-018-4834-5

Article:

Hydrogel implant is as effective as osteochondral autologous transplantation for treating focal cartilage knee injury in 24 months

Authors:

Antonio Altenor Bessa de Queiroz et al.

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