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Abstract #0828

Longitudinal Analysis of Articular Cartilage for Microfracture and Mosaicplasty Procedures Using Quantitative T1rho and T2 MRI

William Wyant Schairer1, Alexander A. Theologis1, Sharmila Majumdar1, Xiaojuan Li1, Benjamin Ma1

1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States


A longitudinal MRI analysis was performed on patients with focal cartilage defects of the femur who received either mosaicplasty or microfracture surgical treatment. We examined T1rho and T2 changes at 3-months and 1-year. Additionally, we performed a laminar analysis to compare the superficial and deep cartilage at the repair site and in the surrounding normal tissue.