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Tear Your Knee? Your Nose Can Help it Heal


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Tear your knee? Maybe your nose can help it heal.

For people with knee joint injuries, the most promising source of new cartilage might be right up their noses. For the first time, doctors in Switzerland have grafted cartilage from the nose into the knees of patients with severe injuries to this connective tissue, the tearing of which can lead to pain and even osteoarthritis.

Doctors now have limited means of repairing cartilage: They can graft or inject knee cartilage cells from a cadaver or a healthy part of the person’s own joint. Or they can create tiny breaks in the underlying bone in the hopes of releasing progenitor cells that can restore the cartilage. But over the last decade, researchers have realized that cartilage cells from the nose are adept at forming new tissue that can hold up to the mechanical stress of the knee joint. And extracting those cells is much less invasive and damaging than digging around in someone’s knee.

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