Clinical Outcomes Following Isolated Lateral Meniscal Allograft Transplantation

Meniscal Allograft Transplantation: Where are we Standing?

“…MAT has provided most patients with pain relief, adequate return to sports, and excellent satisfaction [6][7][8][9]10,11,14,15,17,18,21,[24][25][26][27]. In general, quality of life has even improved after MAT [28], with physical and mental component summary values above those for the matched U.S. population [22,23]. Most studies report a Tegner score in the first 5 years from 3 to 7, corresponding to return to work and recreational sports [7].…”

“…Also, several studies have reported a significant improvement in postoperative values of the Lysholm score compared to preoperative values [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Many studies found significant improvements after MAT in the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) [11,14,15,17,18,20], with percentages between 70 to 90% of nearly normal or normal values [21][22][23]. MAT has provided most patients with pain relief, adequate return to sports, and excellent satisfaction [6][7][8][9]10,11,14,15,17,18,21,[24][25][26][27].…”

Lateral Knee Pain

“…Meniscal allografts and scaffolds have given quite good results in young patient with a menisectomy history (Verdonk et al 2005;Cole et al 2006;Sekiya et al 2006). …”

Future of Allografts in Sports Medicine

“…Ninety-six percent of the patients reported that overall function and activity level improved following surgery, short form 36-item (SF-36) scores were favorable, and follow-up radiographs showed no difference in joint-space narrowing compared with the contralateral side. 52 With regard to graft choice for meniscal transplantation, fresh-frozen allograft is preferred.…”