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The effects of meniscus injury on the development of knee osteoarthritis: data from the osteoarthritis initiative

February 6, 2023 – MeniscusTears.com

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Study Purpose

This study was done to examine the relationship between size and type of meniscus injury and the development of osteoarthritis (OA).

Participants

This study involved 32 patients who developed OA in their knees, and 63 patients of similar age, same sex, and body mass index who did not develop OA.
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Outcomes

In all patients, knee characteristics were examine (presence/location/size of meniscus tears).

Main Findings

  • Those who developed OA did not have a significantly higher rate of meniscal tears versus those who did not develop OA.
  • However, medial meniscus extrusion (displacement of the meniscus), radial tears (occur in inner part of meniscus) and complex tears were more common in patients with OA compared with those without OA.

Key Message

Knees with meniscus tears with greater radial involvement and extrusion were at higher risk for development of OA.

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    Justin D. Saliman, MD, located in Beverly Hills, is a Stanford sports medicine trained orthopaedic surgeon operating out of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

     

    He is the founder of Ceterix® Orthopaedics and the inventor of the NovoStitch® Pro Meniscal Repair System, which was acquired by a large medical device company called Smith & Nephew in 2019.

    The device was granted FDA approval in 2012 and Dr. Saliman has been using it to preserve knee joints ever since.

     

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    He is specialized in joint preserving minimally invasive techniques to repair injuries to the knee to prevent arthritis and the need for joint replacement later in life.

    Dr. Saliman completed a sports medicine fellowship at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he cared for the San Francisco 49ers and the athletic teams at Santa Clara and Stanford Universities.

    Prior to his fellowship, he completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the prestigious St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center of Columbia University in New York City. He earned his medical degree at the University of Colorado School of Medicine outside his hometown of Denver.

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