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  2. Knee cartilage replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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    The human body's own cartilage is still the best material for lining knee joints. This drives efforts to develop ways of using a person's own cells to grow, or re-grow cartilage tissue to replace missing or damaged cartilage. One cell-based replacement technique is called autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) or autologous chondrocyte ...

  3. Articular cartilage repair - Wikipedia

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    Arthroscopic lavage is a "cleaning up" procedure of the knee joint. This short-term solution is not considered as an articular cartilage repair procedure but rather a palliative treatment to reduce pain, mechanical restriction and inflammation. Lavage focuses on removing degenerative articular cartilage flaps and fibrous tissue.

  4. Articular cartilage damage - Wikipedia

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    Articular cartilage damage is often the cause of severe pain, knee swelling, substantial reduction in mobility and severe restrictions to one's activities. Over the last decades, however, research has focused on regenerating damaged joints. These regenerative procedures are believed to delay osteoarthritis of injuries on the articular cartilage ...

  5. Microfracture surgery - Wikipedia

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    Microfracture surgery. Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments. (Lateral meniscus and medial meniscus are cartilage.) Microfracture surgery is an articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone. This causes new cartilage to develop from a so-called super-clot.

  6. Meniscus tear - Wikipedia

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    Orthopedics. A tear of a meniscus is a rupturing of one or more of the fibrocartilage strips in the knee called menisci. When doctors and patients refer to "torn cartilage" in the knee, they actually may be referring to an injury to a meniscus at the top of one of the tibiae. Menisci can be torn during innocuous activities such as walking or ...

  7. Autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane

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    DB10997. UNII. D5P3K3V822. Autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane ( Maci) is a treatment to correct cartilage defects in the knee. [1] It is used to treat symptomatic, full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee with or without bone involvement. [2] [1] Autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane is an ...

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