Se-Han Jung, Hyunjin Park, Min Jung, Kwangho Chung, Sungjun Kim, Hyun-Soo Moon, Jisoo Park, Ju-Hyung Lee, Chong-Hyuk Choi, Sung-Hwan Kim
PURPOSE: To compare the outcomes of treating large cartilage defects in knee osteoarthritis using human allogeneic umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cell (hUCB-MSC) implantation or arthroscopic microdrilling as a supplementary cartilage regenerative procedure combined with high tibial osteotomy (HTO). METHODS: This 1-year prospective comparative study included 25 patients with large, near full-thickness cartilage defects (International Cartilage Repair Society grade ≥ IIIB) in the medial femoral condyles and varus malalignment...
March 1, 2024: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy