THE VALUE OF MICROFRACTURE IN CARTILAGE LESIONS, III AND IV DEGREE

INJURIES IN SPORTS

THE VALUE OF MICROFRACTURE IN CARTILAGE LESIONS, III AND IV DEGREE

Anghelescu Marian
INMS Bucharest, Romania

INTRODUCTION. The cartilage lesions  are after the capsule- ligamentary and  meniscal lesions one of the most common and often meet knee injuries. If for the first two injuries the surgical treatment offers many possibilities , for the cartilage lesions didn’t exist until soon a satisfactory treatment. The experience of our collective points out a 75 % healing percentage of the grade III and IV condral lesions after the surgical microfracture treatment , followed by a viscous- elastic intraarticulary treatment.
MATERIAL AND METHODS.  In our clinic were treated in this manner  40 patients , 32 men and 8 women with good  results. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION. After a follow up over a 6 month period 30 people had very good results -75%. In 6 cases in which after a period of 2-3 month a ligamentoplasty  was  performed we had the opportunity of a second look which showed the former good results. This reason is why we are optimistic especially because we have the global statistic which also shows a percentage of 70-80 % positive results.