Article: Researchers from Yonsei University, Medical Department report details of new studies and findings in the area of transplantation.(Report)

According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "Identifying factors associated with favorable or unfavorable outcomes would provide patients with accurate expectations of the arthroscopic marrow stimulation techniques. To investigate the prognostic significance and optimal measures of defect size Hypothesis: A critical, or threshold, defect size may exist at which clinical outcomes become poor in the treatment of osteochondral lesion of the talus."

"Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. In sum, 120 ankles underwent arthroscopic marrow stimulation treatment for osteochondral lesion of the talus and were evaluated for prognostic factors. Clinical failure was ... <150 mm(2) showed clinical failure, whereas in patients with an area>

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