2021 AOSSM-AANA Combined Annual Meeting Recordings-ICRS Scores Worsen Between 2-and 5-year Follow-up after Medial Meniscus Root Repair: An MRI Analysis

ICRS Scores Worsen Between 2-and 5-year Follow-up after Medial Meniscus Root Repair: An MRI Analysis

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In this video, the presenter discusses the clinical and radiographic outcomes of patients who underwent post-remedial meniscal root repair. Loss of the attachment may lead to complications like extrusion, increased contact pressures, and early development of osteoarthritis. Non-operative management and partial meniscectomy may worsen the progression of osteoarthritis. Root repair is the preferred treatment method as it restores knee biomechanics. A study evaluated the same patient cohort at midterm follow-up and found that functional scores improved, but extrusion and cartilage grades worsened. The study recommends considering alternative techniques to augment repairs. This was a single-center retrospective study with limitations such as the small sample size and reliance on MRI evaluation. Overall, patients maintained functional improvements but had pathologic extrusion and worsening cartilage degeneration. <br /><br />Credits: The video was presented by an undisclosed presenter, funded by an internal NYU resident grant, and referenced previous studies by the Current Authorship Group, Kim et al., Kritsch et al., Koga et al., and Dainey et al.

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Daniel Kaplan, MD

Keywords

meniscal root repair

osteoarthritis

extrusion

cartilage degeneration

functional improvements