Teenagers and young adults are increasingly suffering knee injuries, often causing damage to the cartilage. But there's a ...

Background: Bicompartmental or unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (BKA, UKA) is currently advocated as an alternative solution to conventional total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in order to preserve ...

A research team from Northwest University, China, has developed a breakthrough nano-composite hydrogel system to address the ...

Researchers from Northwest University in China developed a nano-composite hydrogel loaded with dexamethasone and kartogenin for osteoarthritis ...

Removal of all three compartments of the femur, regardless of cartilage defect, may induce postoperative pain and a longer recovery period. Another serious issue with TKA is the loss of normal ...

Objective: To describe the associations between age, knee cartilage morphology, and bone size in adults. Methods: A cross sectional convenience sample of 372 male and female subjects (mean age 45 ...

We aimed to study the relationship between cam morphology size and MRI-defined cartilage defects and labral tears, and if this relationship differs by symptomatic state in young adult football players ...

BACKGROUND Despite the increasing interest in using knee cartilage volume as an outcome measure in studies of osteoarthritis (OA), it is unclear what components of knee cartilage will be most useful ...

In a study on 431 patients with knee OA, baseline lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and time-integrated concentration of LBP were associated with worsening joint space width and narrowing, even ...

Cell therapy is the direct injection of cells with differentiation ability such as adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the joint cavity to achieve chondrocyte regeneration. MSC, as the ...