Osteoarthritis and cartilage
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Osteoarthr. Cartil. · May 2005
Multicenter StudySynovitis: a potential predictive factor of structural progression of medial tibiofemoral knee osteoarthritis -- results of a 1 year longitudinal arthroscopic study in 422 patients.
To evaluate the prevalence of synovitis in painful medial tibiofemoral knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to evaluate correlation between synovitis and the structural severity and progression of tibiofemoral cartilage damage. ⋯ This study suggests that abnormalities of the medial perimeniscal synovium are a common feature of painful medial knee OA, associated with more severe medial chondropathy. It also suggests that an inflammatory aspect of the medial perimeniscal synovium could be considered as a predictive factor of subsequent increased degradation of medial chondropathy.