The occurrence of subsequent surgical procedures (SSPs), primarily arthroscopy, following<unk>  is common. For example, in the Study of the Treatment of Articular Repair (STAR), 49% of Carticel<unk>  patients underwent an SSP on the treated knee, during the 4-year follow up. The most common serious adverse events (up to 5% of patients), include arthrofibrosis and joint adhesions, graft overgrowth, chondromalacia or chondrosis, cartilage injury, graft complication, meniscal lesion, graft delamination, and osteoarthritis. Source: Carticel. A recent study from Germany, published in the November 2008 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, analyzed 349<unk>  procedures of the knee joint. Three different<unk>  techniques were used. A major proportion of complications after<unk>  can be summarized by 4 major diagnoses: symptomatic hypertrophy, disturbed fusion, delamination, and graft failure. Among those, the overall complication rate and incidence of hypertrophy of the transplant were higher for periosteum-covered<unk> . Furthermore, an increased rate of symptomatic hypertrophy was found for patellar defects. Source: Philipp Niemeyer, MD, et al.: Characteristic Complications After<unk>  for Cartilage Defects of the Knee Joint. The American Journal of Sports Medicine 36:2091-2099 (2008).
Autologous chondrocyte implantation
Hip resurfacing
Articular cartilage stem cell paste grafting
Arthrodesis
High tibial osteotomy
Triple arthrodesis
Finger joint replacement
Arthroplasty