V P Mantripragada1, N S Piuzzi2, T Zachos3, N A Obuchowski4, G F Muschler5, R J Midura6. 1. Department of biomedical engineering, Lerner research institute, Cleveland clinic, 9500 Euclid avenue, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA. Electronic address: mantriv@ccf.org. 2. Department of biomedical engineering, Lerner research institute, Cleveland clinic, 9500 Euclid avenue, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA; Department of orthopedic surgery, Cleveland clinic, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA; Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Potosí 4234, C1199ACL Caba, Argentina. 3. Department of orthopedic surgery, Cleveland clinic, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA. 4. Department of quantitative health science, Cleveland clinic, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA. 5. Department of biomedical engineering, Lerner research institute, Cleveland clinic, 9500 Euclid avenue, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA; Department of orthopedic surgery, Cleveland clinic, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA. 6. Department of biomedical engineering, Lerner research institute, Cleveland clinic, 9500 Euclid avenue, OH 44195 Cleveland, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The two main objectives of the study include (1) Test the hypothesis that the lateral femoral condyle (LFC) in patients with primary OA and varus knees undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can be used as a model to better characterize varying histological features of human OA, (2) Correlate characteristic OA features using the established histopathological scoring systems (HHGS and OARSI) to understand potential histopathological patterns of OA initiation. DESIGN: Two osteochondral specimens (4×4×8mm) were collected from fifty patient's LFC at the time of TKA (total 100 specimens), who presented preserved lateral knee compartment with joint space width>2mm. Three independent readers graded the sections on three different occasions using HHGS and OARSI systems. The correlation between individual parameters of the two scoring systems and their inter- and intra-reader variability, reliability and reproducibility were estimated. RESULTS: All samples in this cohort showed abnormal histopathological features. Total histopathological scores of the LFC ranged from HHGS median=4.6 (range=0 to 11), and OARSI median=5.2 (range=0 to 19.5). The four individual sub-items of HHGS scoring system (structure, cells, safraninO staining, tidemark) were weakly correlated, with the correlation between structure and cellularity being the strongest (r=0.40). Both the scoring systems had similar repeatability and reproducibility coefficients of<21%. CONCLUSIONS: OA changes in the LFC are not confined to any one region, and maybe seen in different regions of cartilage, tidemark, subchondral bone, and/or the marrow space vascularity. These variations may point to the possibility of several potential patterns of initiation in OA.
OBJECTIVE: The two main objectives of the study include (1) Test the hypothesis that the lateral femoral condyle (LFC) in patients with primary OA and varus knees undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can be used as a model to better characterize varying histological features of human OA, (2) Correlate characteristic OA features using the established histopathological scoring systems (HHGS and OARSI) to understand potential histopathological patterns of OA initiation. DESIGN: Two osteochondral specimens (4×4×8mm) were collected from fifty patient's LFC at the time of TKA (total 100 specimens), who presented preserved lateral knee compartment with joint space width>2mm. Three independent readers graded the sections on three different occasions using HHGS and OARSI systems. The correlation between individual parameters of the two scoring systems and their inter- and intra-reader variability, reliability and reproducibility were estimated. RESULTS: All samples in this cohort showed abnormal histopathological features. Total histopathological scores of the LFC ranged from HHGS median=4.6 (range=0 to 11), and OARSI median=5.2 (range=0 to 19.5). The four individual sub-items of HHGS scoring system (structure, cells, safraninO staining, tidemark) were weakly correlated, with the correlation between structure and cellularity being the strongest (r=0.40). Both the scoring systems had similar repeatability and reproducibility coefficients of<21%. CONCLUSIONS: OA changes in the LFC are not confined to any one region, and maybe seen in different regions of cartilage, tidemark, subchondral bone, and/or the marrow space vascularity. These variations may point to the possibility of several potential patterns of initiation in OA.
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