Articular cartilage does not usually regenerate (the process of repair by formation of the same type of tissue) after injury or disease leading to loss of tissue and formation of a defect. This fact ...
Dr. Naughton projected that tissue-engineered cartilage, following launch in 2005, can achieve US revenues of approximately $65 million in 2006. Restoring a damaged articular surface is a ...
The authors tested the hypothesis: in knees with normal cartilage morphology by MRI, varus is associated with incident medial cartilage damage and valgus with incident lateral damage. Methods In MOST, ...
Various forms of arthritis afflict nearly 600 million people worldwide and add $16.5 billion to the United States' health care bill, yet there are few engineered cartilage tissue therapies ...
Our experienced team will assess your condition and help you make an informed decision. MACI is a surgical procedure that uses cartilage-forming cells from your body to restore damaged cartilage in ...
OA and ligamentous BMLs and articular cartilage were manually segmented. Bone surfaces were automatically segmented by AAM. Cartilage thickness of <0.5 mm was defined as denuded and ≥0.5–1.5 mm as ...
Although it looks like a rubbery goo, the material is actually a complex network of molecular components, which work together to mimic cartilage’s natural environment in the body. In the new study, ...