tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post8169794141734394165..comments2024-03-13T11:19:08.598-07:00Comments on Saving My Knees: ACI vs. Microfracture, RevisitedRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960907174716515553noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-10607907124333158742016-11-26T15:49:50.440-08:002016-11-26T15:49:50.440-08:00This is the first I've heard of CartiHeal. Rea...This is the first I've heard of CartiHeal. Readers? I would approach with skepticism; much of the material about it circulating on the internet feels like marketing, but maybe someone out there is in the process of doing a good double-blind study.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960907174716515553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-11222297693258865652016-11-20T18:38:13.931-08:002016-11-20T18:38:13.931-08:00Richard do you have any information on this? I hop...Richard do you have any information on this? I hope it's the saving grace for my full thickness patellar chondral defect. http://www.israel21c.org/cartilage-regeneration-on-the-way-for-knees-and-osteoarthritis/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-79086025831125147332016-11-06T03:55:42.032-08:002016-11-06T03:55:42.032-08:00Yes.Yes.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960907174716515553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-5754899332662411512016-10-30T22:32:23.917-07:002016-10-30T22:32:23.917-07:00Was the population of each group equivalent? 40 pe...Was the population of each group equivalent? 40 people in each group?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-42029261149057014142016-10-29T09:58:54.355-07:002016-10-29T09:58:54.355-07:00I skimmed the article, thanks. Partly it appears t...I skimmed the article, thanks. Partly it appears to be a story of reckless ambition and the tendency for people to believe in impressive-sounding technology, even before it's been studied that closely. But I think what happened also underscores the difficulty of creating spare body parts in a lab and swapping them in. Maybe someday this will work well, but it's certainly many orders more complex than changing a car tire. For knee cartilage that's grown outside the body, you have a high incidence of scar tissue formation when it's implanted, for example. And scar tissue comes with its own issues.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960907174716515553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142068982446715373.post-53673260759656044412016-10-28T10:24:28.120-07:002016-10-28T10:24:28.120-07:00Hi Richard and all,
I wondered what you thought ab...Hi Richard and all,<br />I wondered what you thought about this BBC article, which talks at length about the discredited surgeon Macchiarini and the key role a journalist plaid in the process. Macchiarini used a synthetic scaffold and stem cells to replace the windpipe, the organ in question is different but there are similarities with scaffolds that have been attempted to replace missing meniscus. I myself had a scaffold fitted for my lateral meniscus and ended up with a very bad infection which had become chronic due to the CMI scaffold becoming loose and not "growing" within the knee tissue. This is the article, any comments welcome:<br /> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37311038Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com