Return to sport after the surgical management of articular cartilage lesions in the knee: a meta-analysis

• Published in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA Vol. 25; no. 10; pp. 3186 - 3196
• Main Authors: Krych, Aaron J., Pareek, Ayoosh, King, Alexander H., Johnson, Nick R., Stuart, Michael J., Williams, Riley J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Age; Athletes; Athletic Injuries - surgery; Autografts; Autologous chondrocyte implantation; Biocompatibility; Biomedical materials; Cartilage; Cartilage (articular); Cartilage, Articular - injuries; Cartilage, Articular - surgery; Chondrocytes; Defects; Heterogeneity; Humans; Implantation; Intervention; Knee; Knee Injuries - surgery; Knee Joint - surgery; Lesions; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Meta-analysis; Microfracture; Models, Statistical; Orthopedic Procedures - methods; Orthopedics; Recovery of Function; Regression analysis; Restoration; Return to Sport; Sports; Surgery; Transplantation; Treatment Outcome; Cartilage; Osteochondral autograft transfer; Return to sport; Microfracture; Osteochondral allograft transplantation; Autologous chondrocyte implantation

Purpose Optimal surgical treatment of chondral defects in an athletic population remains highly controversial and has yet to be determined. The purpose of this review was to (1) report data on return to sport and (2) compare activity and functional outcome measures following various cartilage restor...