Treatment of Bone Marrow Edema Lesions of the Knee With Percutaneous Grafting

Objective 1. To evaluate the technique of percutaneous grafting with bone substitute in the knee as to its applicability and technical feasibility. 2. Evaluate the results regarding functional improvement and prevention of the evolution of joint cartilage degeneration. Material and methods Twenty patients from the Knee Group clinic who meet the criteria will be selected. Magnetic resonance imaging will be analyzed on the PACS server. Through the resonance will be performed evaluation of the size of the bone edema in volume and its proportion in relation to the size of the affected condyle or tibial plateau and the cartilage of the femoro-tibial joint. The lesions will then be mapped in the coronal and sagittal plane. Radiographs will be taken in antero-posterior, profile, Rosenberg knee and lower limb views. Evaluation of the patients will be performed by the visual analog pain scale and by the KOOS, IKDC and SF-36v1 indices. Description of Surgical Technique After the mapping the patient will be submitted to the procedure. The procedure consists in the application of a bone substitute based on injectable calcium phosphate in the area of bone edema previously mapped with the aid of radioscopy to guide. After confirming the proper positioning of the guidewire, a trephine is introduced through which the product will be injected. GRAFTYS HBS® (Graftys, Aix en Provence, France) will be used. The procedures will be performed in a surgical center, with conventional antisepsis and asepsis techniques and under spinal anesthesia. The patient will be hospitalized and must be discharged on the first postoperative day. After the procedure the patients will be under partial load as tolerated for two weeks with free range of motion and will start physiotherapy after 2 weeks of the procedure. During hospitalization the patient will receive analgesia with intravenous Dipirone 1g every 6 hours associated with Tramadol 100mg intravenously every 8 hours if severe pain. After di