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ArticleCurrent reviews in musculoskeletal medicine2015

Cell-based chondral restoration.

Jeffrey R Giuliani, Adam Pickett

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Article in Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeffrey R GiulianiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD, 20889, USA. Jeffrey.R.Giuliani.mil@mail.mil.
Adam PickettDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD, 20889, USA. Adam.M.Pickett@gmail.com.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As our patients become more physically active at all ages, the incidence of injuries to articular cartilage is increasing and is causing patients significant pain and disability at a younger age. The intrinsic healing response of articular cartilage is poor, because of its limited vascular supply and capacity for chondrocyte division. Nonsurgical management for the focal cartilage lesion is successful in the majority of patients. Those patients that fail conservative management may be candidates for a cartilage reparative or reconstructive procedure. The type of treatment available depends on a multitude of lesion-specific and patient-specific variables. First-line therapies for isolated cartilage lesions have demonstrated good clinical results in the correct patient but typically repair cartilage with fibrocartilage, which has inferior stiffness, inferior resilience, and poorer wear characteristics. Advances in cell-based cartilage restoration have provided the surgeon a means to address focal cartilage lesions utilizing mesenchymal stem cells, chondrocytes, and biomimetic scaffolds to restore hyaline cartilage.

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CartilageChondrocyteHyalineMatrixScaffold

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PMID26408149
PMCPMC4630231
OpenAlexW2161651001

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