How Partial Meniscectomy Affects Contact Mechanics and Tissue Response

部分半月板切除术如何影响接触力学和组织反应

• 批准号: 10399791
• 负责人: Suzanne A. Maher
• 金额: $ 13.72万
• 依托单位: HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-12 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10399791
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Affect; Articular Range of Motion; Biomechanics; Body mass index; Bone structure; Bypass; Cadaver; Cartilage; Characteristics; Classification; Clinical; Clinical Research; Communities; Computer Models; Counseling; Data; Degenerative polyarthritis; Development; Disease; Elements; Exhibits; Gait; Geometry; Goals; Health; Heterogeneity; In Vitro; Injury; Joints; Knee; Knee Osteoarthritis; Knee joint; Lateral; Location; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mechanics; Medial; Meniscus structure of joint; Methodology; Modeling; Operative Surgical Procedures; Outcome; Patients; Pharmacology; Positioning Attribute; Postoperative Period; Predictive Factor; Predisposition; Prevalence; Procedures; Property; Publishing; Radiology Specialty; Rehabilitation therapy; Risk; Risk Factors; Role; Site; Stress; Structure; Surgeon; Techniques; Testing; Time; Tissues; Uncertainty; articular cartilage; base; bone; cohort; follow-up; functional restoration; high risk; human model; in silico; in vivo; joint destruction; kinematics; knee mechanics; musculoskeletal injury; pain relief; patient population; patient subsets; prospective; repaired; response; screening; tissue degeneration

Functioning menisci are critical to knee joint health. If a damaged meniscus cannot be repaired, a section is removed in a “partial meniscectomy” (PM) procedure. While PM can relieve pain and restore function, the long- term result is an increased predisposition to osteoarthritis (OA), the development of which is often clinically silent in the early years. The prevalence of joint degeneration subsequent to meniscal surgery is highly variable across patients, with up to 40% of patients manifesting radiological evidence of the disease at 5 years post- operatively. Despite a vast number of clinical studies, the risk factors associated with developing OA after PM are essentially unknown. With such varied responses, it is impossible to counsel patients on expected outcome after meniscal surgery. Given the fundamental role of the meniscus in distributing forces across the knee joint, changes in knee mechanics that occur with PM have been implicated. The goal of this study is to determine which knee-specific mechanical factors are predictors for the development of post-PM OA. Our primary hypothesis is that the changes in the distribution of knee joint forces (e.g., contact stresses) after PM will constitute a key risk factor for articular cartilage and meniscal degeneration, independent of compartment. We will test this hypothesis by determining which mechanical factors adversely change the distribution of knee joint forces (in vitro studies) and which are strong predictors for the development of post- PM OA (in vivo studies). We will use: (a) a statistically driven experimentally validated computational approach to identify geometric features, tissue properties, and kinematic characteristics that influence contact force distribution across intact and PM knees, and (b) a mechanobiological analysis of a cohort of patients from pre- to post- PM surgery. By using a broad array of synergistic models (cadaveric, computational, patient-based, and statistical), our study will determine which “clinically identifiable” mechanical features are responsible for significant changes in contact mechanics for post-PM knees. Our experimentally validated computational models will be shared with clinicians and the wider scientific community for the classification of patients at “high risk” for post-PM OA in whom modified surgical, pharmacological, and/or rehabilitation techniques could help to mitigate these risk factors.

半月板功能对膝关节健康至关重要。如果损坏的半月板不能修复，则需要进行部分修复