Articular Cartilage Injury

KOLOA, Hawaii — Horizontal cleavage tears are common on MRI, often asymptomatic and the MRI appearance may not correlate with arthroscopy findings, according to a presenter here at Orthopedics Today Hawaii.

Published results showed positive long-term clinical and functional outcomes for patients with knee chondral defects who underwent one-step cartilage repair with a hyaluronic acid-based scaffold and bone marrow aspirate concentrate graft.

Published results showed osteochondral allograft transplantation, autologous chondrocyte implantation and matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation all yielded similar outcomes for patients with patellofemoral cartilage defects.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed an association between older patient age, degenerative diagnosis and larger graft size with higher risk of failure after osteochondral allograft transplantation for articular cartilage lesions.

Compared with patients with normal patellar height, patients with patella alta demonstrated less severe cartilage damage and a lower frequency of full-thickness defects after patellar instability, according to published results.

Results published in Journal of Orthopedic Surgery showed that a thin, laser-etched osteochondral allograft yielded positive short-term clinical outcomes in isolated articular cartilage defects in the knee.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Aaron J. Krych, MD, spoke about the classification of meniscal tears and the ability of native cartilage to repair.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Pamela J. Lund, MD, discussed controversies, challenges and new technologies in imaging of patients with meniscal and cartilage defects.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Aaron J. Krych, MD, spoke about articular cartilage problems and the use of tried-and-true and innovative techniques.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Patients with compromised knee cartilage status and Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2 changes are good candidates for cartilage surgery, but surgeons need to proceed slowly and select the optimal treatment, a speaker said.