cartilage repair

Cartilage damage of the patella

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:48:32 -0700

IKDC or KOOS? Which Measures Symptoms and Disabilities Most Important to Postoperative Articular Cartilage Repair Patients?

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:22:25 -0700

Hambly K and Griva K. IKDC or KOOS?

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Microfracture or ACI - which is best?

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:52:34 -0700

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.

Abrasion arthroplasty (dictionary definition)

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:38:49 -0700

Managing arthritis - surgical cartilage repair

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:45:50 -0700

What symptoms and disabilities are important to articular cartilage repair patients? - survey update

ergomaniac — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:38:23 -0800

Positive first response from medical community...

What symptoms and disabilities are important to articular cartilage repair patients?

ergomaniac — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:25:46 -0800

This survey is part of a study to compare two different scoring systems commonly used by surgeons to assess the success of cartilage repair surgeries.

Introduction to articular cartilage repair

admin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:30:06 -0800

Cartilage repair - ACI and MACI

admin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:02:04 -0700

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'