A comparison of the healing potential of fibrillated cartilage versus eburnated bone in osteoarthritic knees after high tibial osteotomy
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Information regarding the quality of autologous chondrocyte implantation repair is needed to determine whether the current autologous chondrocyte implantation surgical technology and the subsequent biologic repair processes are capable of reliably forming durable hyaline or hyaline-like cartilage in vivo. We report and analyze the properties and qualities of autologous chondrocyte implantation repairs. We evaluated 66 autologous chondrocyte implantation repairs in 57 patients, 55 of whom had histology, indentometry, and International Cartilage Repair Society repair scoring at reoperation for mechanical symptoms or pain. International Knee Documentation Committee scores were used to address clinical outcome. Maximum stiffness, normalized stiffness, and International Cartilage Repair Society repair scoring were higher for hyaline articular cartilage repairs compared with fibrocartilage, with no difference in clinical outcome. Reoperations revealed 32 macroscopically abnormal repairs (Group B) and 23 knees with normal-looking repairs in which symptoms leading to arthroscopy were accounted for by other joint disorders (Group A). In Group A, 65% of repairs were either hyaline or hyaline-like cartilage compared with 28% in Group B. Autologous chondrocyte repairs composed of fibrocartilage showed more morphologic abnormalities and became symptomatic earlier than hyaline or hyaline-like cartilage repairs. The hyaline articular cartilage repairs had biomechanical properties comparable to surrounding cartilage and superior to those associated with fibrocartilage repairs.
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Recently, many types of methodologies have been developed to regenerate articular cartilage. It is important to assess whether the reconstructed cartilaginous tissue has the appropriate mechanical functions to qualify as hyaline (articular) cartilage. In some cases, the reconstructed tissue may become fibrocartilage and not hyaline cartilage. In this study, we determined the dynamic viscoelastic properties of these two types of cartilage by using compression and shear tests, respectively. Hyaline cartilage specimens were harvested from the articular surface of bovine knee joints and fibrocartilage specimens were harvested from the meniscus tissue of the same. The results of this study revealed that the compressive energy dissipation of hyaline cartilage showed a strong dependence on testing frequency at low frequencies, while that of fibrocartilage did not. Therefore, the compressive energy dissipation that is indicated by the loss tangent could become the criterion for the in vitro assessment of the mechanical function of regenerated cartilage.
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Chondrocytes that are impregnated within hydrogel constructs sense applied mechanical force and can respond by expressing collagens, which are deposited into the extracellular matrix (ECM). The intention of most cartilage tissue engineering is to form hyaline cartilage, but if mechanical stimulation pushes the ratio of collagen type I (Col1) to collagen type II (Col2) in the ECM too high, then fibrocartilage can form instead. With a focus on Col1 and Col2 expression, the first part of this article reviews the latest studies on hyaline cartilage regeneration within hydrogel constructs that are subjected to compression forces (one of the major types of the forces within joints) in vitro . Since the mechanical loading conditions involving compression and other forces in joints are difficult to reproduce in vitro , implantation of hydrogel constructs in vivo is also reviewed, again with a focus on Col1 and Col2 production within the newly formed cartilage. Furthermore, mechanotransduction pathways that may be related to the expression of Col1 and Col2 within chondrocytes are reviewed and examined. Also, two recently-emerged, novel approaches of load-shielding and synchrotron radiation (SR)–based imaging techniques are discussed and highlighted for future applications to the regeneration of hyaline cartilage. Going forward, all cartilage tissue engineering experiments should assess thoroughly whether fibrocartilage or hyaline cartilage is formed.
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The recent studies on knees showed that histologically an earlier tendon and joint cartilage structure healing was faster than the tendon and bone healing. The authors conducted a study to explore the biological potential of using autologous cartilage as interpositional materials to reestablish a fibrocartilage BT junction zone and to accelerate the BT junction repair. Autologous fibrocartilage(autologous meniscus) and hyaline cartilage (articular cartilage) were used as interpositional materials for BT repair. Earlier and well incorporate BT interface was observed after using both fibrocartilage and hyaline cartilage to repair the BT junction compared with a direct BT reattachment at the 8th postoperative week,without degenerative changes. The interposiitonal cartilage resembled the matrix of the normal fibrocartilage zone of the BT junction by evealuating its matrix proteoglycans using Safrainin O staining.
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Objective. To investigate ultrasonic evaluation methods for detecting whether the repair tissue is hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage in new cartilage regeneration therapy. Methods. We examined four experimental rabbit models: a spontaneous repair model (group S), a large cartilage defect model (group L), a periosteal graft model (group P) and a tissue-engineered cartilage regeneration model (group T). From the resulting ultrasonic evaluation, we used %MM (the maximum magnitude of the measurement area divided by that of the intact cartilage) as a quantitative index of cartilage regeneration. The results of the ultrasonic evaluation were compared with the histological findings and histological score. Results. The %MM values were 61.1 ± 16.5% in group S, 29.8 ± 15.1% in group L, 36.3 ± 18.3% in group P and 76.5 ± 18.7% in group T. The results showed a strong similarity to the histological scoring. Conclusion. The ultrasonic examination showed that all the hyaline-like cartilage in groups S and T had a high %MM (more than 60%). Therefore, we could define the borderline between the two types of regenerated cartilage by the %MM.
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Articular cartilage implantation (ACI) and associated procedures (MACI = Matrix-assisted cartilage implantation) are now established treatments for osteochondral defects in the knee. The quality of repair in terms of histological appearance is frequently not known, whilst the correlation of histology results with functional outcomes remains undefined. Histological data of the quality of the repair tissue is sparse and a precise classification proved difficult. This was a single-centre, prospective study. Over 12 years (1998-2010) 406 patients that underwent articular cartilage implantation procedures at our institution (ACI = 170, MACI = 205) had biopsies taken at the 1-2 year interval, in order to assess whether these contained ‘hyaline-like’ cartilage, ‘mixed hyaline-like with fibrocartilage’, fibrocartilage or fibrous tissue alone. Histological sections of the biopsies were prepared and stained with haematoxylin, eosin and proteoglycan stains and viewed under polarised light. All biopsies were studied by a single histopathologist in a specialist, dedicated musculoskeletal laboratory. All patients were assessed by the Cincinnati, Bentley and Visual Analogue scores both pre-operatively and at the time of the review. The findings revealed that 56 patients healed with ‘hyaline-like’ cartilage (14.9%), 103 with ‘mixed’ (27.5%), 179 with fibrocartilage (47.7%) and 37 with fibrous tissue (9.9%). These findings showed that 42.4% of defects were filled with ‘hyaline-like’ or ‘mixed’ cartilage, with 70% of these achieving a ‘fair’ to ‘excellent’ functional outcome. This was also observed in the fibrocartilage group, where 72% achieved similar results. Predictably 89% of the patients that healed by fibrous tissue had a poor functional outcome. This study shows that 71% of patients whose osteochondral defects healed by either ‘hyaline-like’, ‘mixed’ or fibrocartilage experienced an improvement in the function. In contrast, only 11% of the patients whose defects filled with fibrous tissue, showed some functional improvement. Additionally, this data indicates the advantage of biopsies in assessing the overall results of cartilage implantation procedures.
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