Treating knee cartilage damage with lab-grown bone marrow tissue
Part of Bones, joints & muscles, Injuries & trauma clinical trials.
This trial tests a new treatment that uses your own bone marrow cells to grow a piece of tissue to repair damaged knee cartilage. It's for people with a single, medium-sized cartilage injury on the thigh bone part of the knee joint that hasn't gotten better with other treatments.
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Who can take part
- You are between 18 and 60 years old.
- You have a single cartilage injury on the inner or outer side of the thigh bone in your knee, about 1 to 4 cm square.
- The injury is severe (grade III or IV) and reaches the bone under the cartilage, as seen on MRI.
- You've tried non-surgical treatments (like physical therapy or pain management) for at least 4 months without success.
- You have not had any previous cartilage repair surgery or certain injections in that knee within the last few months.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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