| Literature DB >> 25352927 |
Alberto Siclari1, Gennaro Mascaro2, Christian Kaps3, Eugenio Boux1.
Abstract
The aim of our study was to analyze the clinical outcome after repair of cartilage defects of the knee with subchondral drilling and resorbable polymer-based implants immersed with autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Fifty-two patients with focal chondral defects were treated with subchondral drilling, followed by covering with a polyglycolic acid - hyaluronan (PGA-HA) implant (chondrotissue®) immersed with autologous PRP. At 5-year follow-up, patients' situation was assessed using the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) and compared to the pre-operative situation. The KOOS showed clinically meaningful and significant (p < 0.05) improvement in all subcategories compared to baseline. Subgroup analysis showed that there were no differences in the clinical outcome regarding defect size and localization as well as degenerative condition of the knee. Cartilage repair was complete in 20 out of 21 patients at 4-year follow-up as shown by magnetic resonance observation of cartilage repair tissue (MOCART) scoring. Covering of focal cartilage defects with the PGA-HA implant and PRP after bone marrow stimulation leads to a lasting improvement of the patients' situation.Entities:
Keywords: Bone marrow stimulation; cartilage repair; drilling; microfracture; platelet-rich plasma; polyglycolic acid-hyaluronan scaffold; polymer-based implant.
Year: 2014 PMID: 25352927 PMCID: PMC4209503 DOI: 10.2174/1874325001408010346
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Open Orthop J ISSN: 1874-3250
Patients' characteristics.
| Patients’ Data | |
|---|---|
| 52 | |
| female (n=32), male (n=20) | |
| mean 44 (range 31-65),≤ 45 (n=31); > 45 (n=21) | |
| mean 24 (range 19-31),< 25 (n=35), ≥ 25 (n=17) | |
| mean 167 (range 154-190) | |
| mean 68 (range 50-108) | |
| KL 0 (n=5),KL 1 (n=21),KL 2 (n=15), | |
| mean 3.0 (range 1.5-5.0),≤ 3.0 (n=34), >3.0 (n=18) | |
| III (n=16),IV (n=36) | |
| medial femoral condyle (n=12), | |
| none | |
| none |
Overall KOOS in patients’ characteristics related subgroups.
| Overall KOOS | (84.8/85.4) | (85.5/84.4) | (84.9/85.3) | (85.3/84.7) | (84.7/85.5) | (85.5/84.9) |
Correlation analysis.
| pain | (-0.02/0.90), 0.0004 | (0.05/0.73), 0.0025 | (0.15/0.30), 0.0225 | (-0.07/0.61), 0.0049 | (-0.12/0.41), 0.0144 | |
| spt | (0.03/0.85), 0.0009 | (0.04/0.80), 0.0016 | (-0.09/0.52), 0.0081 | (0.16/0.27), 0.0256 | (0.14/0.32), 0.0196 | (0.16/0.27), 0.0256 |
| ADL | (-0.11/0.46), 0.0121 | (-0.08/0.57), 0.0064 | (-0.15/0.28), 0.0225 | (0.14/0.33), 0.0196 | (0.12/0.40), 0.0144 | |
| sport&recr | (-0.23/0.10), 0.0529 | (0.18/0.20),0.0918 | (0.06/0.65),0.0036 | (0.10/0.50), 0.0100 | ||
| QoL | (-0.05/0.74),0.0025 | (-0.03/0.85),0.0009 | (-0.10/0.50)0.0100 | (0.14/0.34),0.0196 | (0.20/0.17),0.0400 |
cc = correlation coefficient.
cd = coefficient of determination.
Evaluation of cartilage repair tissue (n = 21) at 4-year follow-up by using the magnetic resonance observation of cartilage repair tissue score (MOCART).
| Complete | 20 | 20 |
| Hypertrophy | 15 | 0 |
| Incomplete >50% of the adjacent cartilage | 10 | 1 |
| Incomplete >50% of the adjacent cartilage | 5 | 0 |
| Subchondral bone exposed | 0 | 0 |
| Complete | 15 | 21 |
| Incomplete, demarcating border visible | 10 | 0 |
| Incomplete, defect visible <50% of the length | 5 | 0 |
| Incomplete, defect visible >50% of the length | 0 | 0 |
| Surface intact | 10 | 20 |
| Surface damaged <50% of depth | 5 | 0 |
| Surface damaged >50% of depth | 0 | 1 |
| Homogeneous | 5 | 21 |
| Inhomogeneous | 0 | 0 |
| Normal (identical to the adjacent cartilage) | 30 | 21 |
| Nearly normal (slight areas of signal alteration) | 15 | 0 |
| Abnormal (large areas of signal alteration) | 0 | 0 |
| Intact | 5 | 21 |
| Not intact | 0 | 0 |
| Intact | 5 | 21 |
| Not intact (edema, granulation tissue, cysts, sclerosis) | 0 | 0 |
| No | 5 | 21 |
| Yes | 0 | 0 |
| No | 5 | 21 |
| Yes | 0 | 0 |