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  • Orthopedic surgery
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Regenerative medicine

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  • Meniscus allograft transplantation (MAT) offers good clinical outcomes but faces challenges like graft shrinkage, extrusion, and osteoarthritis progression.
  • Optimizing surgical techniques and exploring cell therapies are crucial for improving MAT success rates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the influence of MAT surgical techniques and novel cell therapies on graft extrusion and tibiofemoral contact stresses.
  • To identify optimization strategies for improved clinical outcomes in MAT.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of 27 articles focusing on surgical fixation techniques and cell therapies for MAT.
  • Analysis of clinical, cadaveric, and preclinical studies examining graft extrusion, joint mechanics, and tissue regeneration.

Main Results:

  • Bony fixation techniques demonstrated superiority over soft tissue and transosseous suture fixation in restoring joint mechanics and minimizing graft extrusion.
  • Cell therapies, including intrameniscal injections and cell sheet transplantation, showed potential for improving allograft tissue properties, regeneration, and chondroprotection.
  • Short-term clinical outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) were not significantly affected by fixation techniques, though long-term implications remain unevaluated.

Conclusions:

  • While bony fixation offers biomechanical benefits, its long-term clinical impact compared to traditional methods requires further investigation.
  • Cell therapies hold significant potential to enhance allograft healing, tissue properties, and chondroprotection, complementing current surgical approaches.
  • Future research should focus on the long-term clinical efficacy of optimized surgical techniques and integrated cell therapies in MAT.