Tissue Integration of Calcium Phosphate Compound after Subchondroplasty: 4-Year Follow-Up in a 76-Year-Old Female Patient.
Samo K FokterMatevž KuhtaMarko HojnikŽiva LedinekRok KostanjšekPublished in: Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Subchondroplasty is a new minimally invasive surgical technique developed to treat bone marrow lesions (BML) and early osteoarthritis (OA). During the procedure, engineered calcium phosphate compound (CPC) is injected. It is claimed by the manufacturer that during the healing process, the CPC is replaced with new bone. The purpose of this study was to verify the replacement of CPC with new bone after subchondroplasty for the first time in humans. A 76-year old woman was referred for resistant medial knee pain. Standing radiographs showed varus knee OA and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed BML. She was treated with subchondroplasty of medial femoral condyle. Excellent relief of pain was achieved after procedure. Afterwards, the pain worsened, the radiographs confirmed the OA progression and the patient was treated with a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) 4 years after primary procedure. The resected bone was examined histologically and with micro-computed tomography (CT). Histologically, bone trabeculae of subcortical bone were embedded in the amorphous mass. However, no signs of CPC resorption and/or bone replacement have been found with micro-CT. In short term, excellent pain relief could be expected after the subchondroplasty procedure. However, there was no replacement of CPC with bone and the technique probably did not influence the natural process of knee OA.
Keyphrases
- total knee arthroplasty
- knee osteoarthritis
- bone mineral density
- minimally invasive
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- chronic pain
- bone loss
- soft tissue
- contrast enhanced
- bone marrow
- pain management
- bone regeneration
- positron emission tomography
- rheumatoid arthritis
- magnetic resonance
- body composition
- mesenchymal stem cells
- image quality
- spinal cord injury
- multiple sclerosis
- pet ct
- diffusion weighted imaging