The
surgical management of symptomatic articular cartilage defects of the knee:
Consensus statements from United Kingdom knee surgeons
Biant LC, McNicholas MJ,
Sprowson AP, Spalding T. Knee. 2015 Jun 23. pii: S0968-0160(15)00129-5. doi:
10.1016/j.knee.2015.06.001. [Epub ahead of print]
A new consensus statement
on the surgical management of symptomatic articular cartilage defects of the
knee has been released by the UK Cartilage Consensus Meeting. The consensus
statement focused on “an isolated defect of the knee…where alignment was normal
or surgically corrected by osteotomy, and free of inflammatory joint disease
and with some functional meniscal tissue remaining.” Furthermore, surgery was considered only after there was no response to conservative care. The
document provides a brief overview of surgical treatment strategies and 7 consensus
statements.