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cartilage repair
IKDC or KOOS? Which Measures Symptoms and Disabilities Most Important to Postoperative Articular Cartilage Repair Patients?
Submitted by admin on June 26, 2008 - 1:22pm.Hambly K and Griva K. IKDC or KOOS?
Microfracture or ACI - which is best?
Submitted by admin on June 17, 2008 - 9:52am.This very sophisticated discussion on the bulletin board will be of interest to readers who want to know what difference there is in outcome between ACI and Microfracture.
What symptoms and disabilities are important to articular cartilage repair patients? - survey update
Submitted by ergomaniac on February 29, 2008 - 3:38pm.Positive first response from medical community...
Cartilage repair - ACI and MACI
Submitted by admin on June 22, 2007 - 8:02am.Both of these techniques involve taking a small amount of healthy cartilage from the patient, sending it to a laboratory to be grown as a tissue culture and then returned to the patient for implant.
In ACI the defect is sealed over with a membrance sewn over the hole, and the cells are injected behind the membrane as a suspension.
In MACI the cells are grown onto a collagen scaffold or 'matrix' in the laboratory, and then the cell-rich scaffold is sewn into place to fill the cartilage defect.
ACI stands for 'autologous chondrocyte implant'
