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Intra-articular injection of expanded autologous bone marrow mesenchymal cells in moderate and severe knee osteoarthritis is safe: a phase I/II study

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, December 2017
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Title
Intra-articular injection of expanded autologous bone marrow mesenchymal cells in moderate and severe knee osteoarthritis is safe: a phase I/II study
Published in
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13018-017-0689-6
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Mahasen Al-Najar, Hiba Khalil, Jihad Al-Ajlouni, Eman Al-Antary, Mohammad Hamdan, Reem Rahmeh, Dana Alhattab, Osama Samara, Mohamad Yasin, Amenah Al Abdullah, Esraa Al-jabbari, Dima Hmaid, Hanan Jafar, Abdalla Awidi

Abstract

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a major health problem especially in the aging population. There is a need for safe treatment that restores the cartilage and reduces the symptoms. The use of stem cells is emerging as a possible option for the moderate and severe cases. This study aimed at testing the safety of autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) expanded in vitro when given intra-articularly to patients with stage II and III KOA. As a secondary end point, the study tested the ability of these cells to relieve symptoms and restore the knee cartilage in these patients as judged by normalized knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) and by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Thirteen patients with a mean age of 50 years suffering from KOA stages II and III were given two doses of BM-MSCs 1 month apart totaling 61 × 106 ± 0.6 × 106 by intra-articular injection in a phase I prospective clinical trial. Each patient was followed for a minimum of 24 months for any adverse events and for clinical outcome using normalized KOOS. Cartilage thickness was assessed by quantitative MRI T2 at 12 months of follow-up. No severe adverse events were reported up to 24 months follow-up. Normalized KOOS improved significantly. Mean knee cartilage thickness measured by MRI improved significantly. BM-MSCs given intra-articularly are safe in knee osteoarthrosis. Despite the limited number of patients in this study, the procedure described significantly improved the KOOS and knee cartilage thickness, indicating that they may enhance the functional outcome as well as the structural component. ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02118519.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 185 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 30 16%
Student > Bachelor 29 16%
Student > Master 20 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 5%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 53 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 22 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 4%
Engineering 7 4%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 60 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2022.
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#32
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
#1
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