Cartilage Repair Activity during Joint-Preserving Treatment May Be Accompanied by Osteophyte Formation

Applied Sciences

Tonia L. Vincent¹  Fiona E. Watt¹  Ronald J. van Heerwaarden²  Roel J. H. Custers³  Pieter J. Emans⁴  Simon C. Mastbergen⁵  Elske J. Willemse⁵  Mylène P. Jansen⁵  Floris P. J. G. Lafeber⁵  Sander Spruijt⁶ 

[1] Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FY, UK;Centre for Deformity Correction and Joint Preserving Surgery, Kliniek ViaSana, 5451AA Mill, The Netherlands;Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584CX Utrecht, The Netherlands;Department of Orthopedics, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6229HX Maastricht, The Netherlands;Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584CX Utrecht, The Netherlands;Reinier Haga Orthopaedic Centre, 2725NA Zoetermeer, The Netherlands;

关键词: knee joint distraction;    osteophyte;    osteoarthritis;    high tibial osteotomy;    TGFβ-1;    joint-preserving;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app11157156

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Knee joint distraction (KJD) treatment has shown cartilage repair and clinical improvement in patients with osteoarthritis, as has high tibial osteotomy (HTO). Following KJD, TGFβ-1 and IL-6 were increased in synovial fluid (SF), factors related to cartilage regeneration, but also to osteophyte formation. As such, osteophyte formation after both joint-preserving treatments was studied. Radiographic osteophyte size was measured before, one year, and two years after treatment. Changes were compared with natural progression in patients from the CHECK cohort before undergoing total knee arthroplasty. An additional KJD cohort underwent SF aspiration, and one-year Altman osteophyte score changes were compared to SF-marker changes during treatment. After two years, both KJD (n = 58) and HTO (n = 38) patients showed an increase in osteophyte size (+6.2 mm² and +7.0 mm² resp.; both p < 0.004), with no significant differences between treatments (p = 0.592). Untreated CHECK patients (n = 44) did not show significant two-year changes (+2.1 mm²; p = 0.207) and showed significant differences with KJD and HTO (both p < 0.044). In SF aspiration patients (n = 17), there were significant differences in TGFβ-1 changes (p = 0.044), but not IL-6 (p = 0.898), between patients with a decrease, no change, or increase in osteophyte Altman score. Since KJD and HTO showed joint space widening and clinical improvement accompanied by osteophyte formation, increased osteophytosis after joint-preserving treatments may be a bystander effect of cartilage repair activity related to intra-articular factors like TGFβ-1 and raises questions regarding osteophyte formation as solely characteristic of the joint degenerative process.

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