The outcome of autologous chondrocyte transplantation treatment of cartilage lesions in the knee.

作者信息

Drobnic Matej, Kregar-Velikonja Nevenka, Radosavljevic Damjan, Gorensek Miro, Koritnik Branko, Malicev Elvira, Wozniak Gordana, Jeras Matjaz, Knezevic Miomir

机构信息

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Clinical Centre, Zaloska 9, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

出版信息

Cell Mol Biol Lett. 2002;7(2):361-3.

Recent results of the clinical outcome of autologous chondrocyte transplantation (ACT) treatment in a group of 28 patients with focal femoral condyle cartilage lesions revealed a correlation trend with the quality of the in vitro cell culture matrix-protein synthesis. No impact of the patients' age and chondrocyte cryopreservation prior to implantation was observed. Further studies are needed to confirm the preliminary results.