Cartilage lesions can be treated with HA-based scaffold with BMAC

Cartilage repair using hyaluronic acid-based scaffolding embedded with bone marrow aspirate concentrate (HA-BMAC) has been shown to provide durable repair for patients with a wide range of ages and in cases of multiple and large lesions, which is comparable to results expected in ACI procedures. [...]the HABMAC technique may be done as a one-step procedure that is performed arthroscopically or used to treat osteochondral lesions in the case of significant subchondral injury. Future directions Cartilage restoration performed as a single-stage procedure has obvious benefits related to resource utilization and patient-related considerations, such as decreased morbidity and reduced socioeconomic impact. Clinical outcome data that examined HA-BMAC cartilage repair techniques have demonstrated success comparable to two-step procedures that used autologous chondrocytes over medium- and long-term followup.