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SOURCES: This video is from the WebMD Video Archive.2006 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Dennis Crawford, MD, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgeon/Researcher, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR. Interview, January 17, 2006.
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A surgical scar is not usually something you show off, but in this case, it may be a future picture of health. The knee belongs to 46-year-old Leslie Faus. The former marathoner practices yoga five times a week, but a year ago, she started having pain in her left knee.
It would get tired a little bit more than the other one.
Doctors told Leslie she had damaged the cartilage in her knee. Fearing she'd eventually need knee replacement surgery, she opted for an experimental fix. Doctors make a tiny incision in the knee and carefully remove some of Leslie's own cartilage.
We would take a small sample about the size of a tic-tac or a very small pea and send that to the lab, where it would be prepared and then grown in a disc in a chamber where we mimic the conditions of the knee.
Six weeks later, that patch is ready for transplant. Surgeons slip it into the damaged area and attach it with a biological glue.
And that's another sort of advancement of this technology is there's no suturing. There's no screws. There's no plates. There's no metal or plastic. It's simply a glue that's based on biological tissue.
Leslie says she's feeling less pain.
I've noticed a lot more flexibility in yoga
And hopes the knee surgery allows her the flexibity to keep her stretching, bending, and moving every which way for many years to come. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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