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Filter by:A phase I/II clinical trial (first in human) to assess the effectiveness and safety of the treatment of cartilage injury with a tissue engineering construct composed of stromal vascular fraction collected from the synovial membrane and infrapatellar fat of the injured knee, submitted to enzymatic processing in a single surgical time, associated with a collagen scaffold. The primary outcomes will be assessed by 3T magnetic resonance imaging, quality of life and knee function questionnaires, in addition to perioperative and post-operative complications. Secondary outcomes will be evaluated by measuring the health resources used to ensure compatibility, reproducibility and generalizability of the technique. The authors believe that adverse events will be similar to current surgical procedures and that there will be an improvement in knee function scores and quality of life of patients undergoing the procedure.
Knee joint cartilage cells metabolize slowly, and it is difficult to repair themselves after injury. Any knee joint trauma or the progression of osteoarthritis may lead to the progression of cartilage or osteochondral defects. Compared with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), peripheral blood MSCs have better chondrogenic differentiation ability. At the same time, the mobilization of peripheral blood MSCs and the advancement of extraction technology also make it feasible to treat osteochondral damage by using peripheral blood MSCs. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic effect of surgical transplantation of autologous peripheral blood MSCs to repair knee joint Ⅳ-degree localized cartilage injury, and to explore a new treatment for osteochondral defects based on the foundation of the research group's previous research.
SHARC is an observational study of cartilage patients who are treated with surgery that involves obtaining a harvest biopsy. SHARC will study the natural healing process of the harvest biopsy site based on histological and biochemical analyses of repair tissue biopsies, synovial fluid biomarkers, medical imaging (MRI) and gait analysis.
The goal of this study is to establish if mesenchymal stem cell augmentation improves graft incorporation and to analyze the cytokine environment of the joint after osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCA) with and without intra-articular bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) injection. Information learned from this study can be used to biochemically compare treatment response and to assess emerging therapeutic options that may positively alter the biochemical environment in patients who suffer from articular cartilage disorders.
Multi-center, prospective, concurrently controlled, non-randomized, double-blind (patient and assessor). Treatment of large chondral lesions in the knee with microfracture plus the Chondro-Gide® ACC is non-inferior to treatment of small chondral lesions treated with microfracture alone.
The primary objective of this registry is to obtain long-term outcomes on ProChondrix CR in cartilage repair procedures of the knee, ankle, foot and hip.
The aim of the study is the evaluation of both clinical and radiological results in patients undergone to cruciate ligament reconstruction with concomitant cartilaginous lesion treated with or without nanofractures.
The purpose of the study is to investigate factors that are associated with outcomes of injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee among patients who are undergoing surgical reconstruction. This study is a registry of all patients having knee surgery at our institution performed by 4 fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons. The surgeon documents patient information on standard data forms including risk factors and surgical findings.
The investigators propose to prospectively evaluate the accuracy of a novel 7-Tesla (7T) knee MRI protocol for the detection and grading of cartilage lesions in the knee, which is a significant limitation of current MRI techniques.
In this study, the effectiveness of ESWT in the treatment of knee OA was investigated from the perspective of cartilage injury，and to prove that shockwave could delay the early and middle stage OA progression by improving cartilage condition