Watch Dr. Nels Sampatacos from Pro Sport in Gig Harbor, WA perform another cartilage transplant using two different techniques from his point-of-view using ahead mounted camera. The patient is a healthy 43 year-old male with a full-thickness chondral defect involving the weight-bearing portion of the lateral femoral condyle (part of his knee). This was treated with a fresh osteochondral allograft (cartilage and bone from a cadaver). The same patient was found to also have a full-thickness defect within the central trochlea (another part of the knee). This defect was treated with a matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI) procedure. This involves an initial biopsy of the patient’s cartilage cells, which are then cultured (multiplied) on a porcine collagen membrane, yielding 500,000 – 1,000,000 chondrocytes per square centimeter. This membrane is then transplanted back into the knee and secured in place with fibrin glue.

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