Joy Kong, MD breaks down a study comparing knee replacement surgery to stem cell injections in patients with severe knee damage from steroids. Surgery required revision in 6 of 30 knees; stem cell treatment needed revision in just 1 of 30.
There's one study I want people to be aware of because it's such an elegant study, because these are for people who had taken a lot of steroid and they had bilateral knee deterioration. So then what do they do? They split the patient in half. So one knee, they did the surgery, knee replacement. The other knee, they gave a stem cell injection. So now you have the same patient, half is stem cells, half his knee surgery. So that's 30 knees. So 30 patients, that means 30 knees that got surgery and 30 knees got stem cell injections. So out of the 30 knees that got surgery, six of them ended up having to have revision surgery. And you know when you have to go back in to revise it, that means things didn't go well. Right. They have to make it better to cut, to cut again. But out of the 30 knees that got stem cell injections, only one actually needed surgery in the end. This is after years. Yeah. So that just give you shows you out of the 30 knees that actually got cut and got a new part. Right. Got amputated. In a sense, it didn't really have to happen.
