This course includes the recording of a live Instructional Course from the 2024 AOSSM Annual Meeting which took place in Denver, CO.

IC 308: Management of Patellofemoral Instability and Chondral Lesions in The Young Patient: Focus on Stabilization and Cartilage Restoration

Course Description:

Lectures, cases, and audience participation discussing the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of patellofemoral (PF) instability and associated chondral lesion. ICL will include discussion of both cell-based cartilage repair and osteochondral transplantation, tibial tubercle osteotomies, trochleaplasty, and medial soft tissue procedures, and will provide a contemporary understanding of surgical management of PF instability and PF chondral lesions.

Learning Objectives: 

• Introduction/Overview of soft tissue stabilization procedures for patellar instability.
• TTO is a key component of surgical management of patellar instability and helps with cartilage repair.
• Trochleaplasty is the way to address patellar instability when dysplasia is present and can be done in conjunction with cartilage repair procedures.
• Cartilage restoration options in the PF joint.

Faculty:

• Alexander Golant, MD
• Jacqueline M. Brady, MD
• Kirk A. Campbell, MD
• J Lee Pace, MD