EFFICACY OF BIOMIMETIC COLLAGEN-HYDROXYAPATITE SCAFFOLDS AND BONE MARROW STIMULATION IN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND BONE REGENERATION

Volume 35, Number 8 (2025)

Greta Andrejauskaitė, Rokas Jurkonis Abstract Chondral and osteochondral lesions often progress to osteoarthritis, causing pain, disability, and significant socioeconomic burden. While bone marrow stimulation (BMS) remains a standard technique for chondral re­pair, its efficacy is limited in large or deep lesions due to fibrous repair tissue formation. Biomimetic collagen– hydroxyapatite (coll-HA) scaffolds, designed to mimic…

Knee Articular Cartilage Lesions Degree and Frequency Dependence on Gender, Age and Most Commonly Damaged Cartilage Areas

Volume 25, Number 3 (2015)

Rimtautas Gudas, Eimantas Spitrys Abstract Knee articular cartilage lesions are a common and relevant problem. Lesions are influenced by gender, age, race, genetic factors, obesity, trauma, previous inflammatory processes. Modern methods of treatment of osteoarthritis can‘t fully restore degene­ rated cartilage normal function, so it is very important to assess risk factors and identify lesions…