By offering the treatment as ‘early intervention’, surgeons hope they can repair joints before irreversible arthritis sets in.
An
ageing population, obesity and increasing sporting activity means that
as many as 90,000 Britons have knee replacement surgery due to arthritis
each year.
Up
to now, the only option was implanting tissue taken from elsewhere in
the patient’s body or from a donor into areas of the knee to repair
damage.
But
an Oxford University-backed company has successfully used replacement
‘cartilage’ made from silk proteins called fibroin to carry out the
procedure.
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