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The rate of venous thromboembolism after knee bone marrow concentrate procedures: should we anticoagulate?
Ist Teil von
International orthopaedics, 2022-10, Vol.46 (10), p.2213-2218
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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SpringerLink (Online service)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Purpose
Intra-articular injections of autologous, minimally manipulated, cell therapies such as bone marrow concentrate (BMC) to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA) may delay or prevent future total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Arthroplasty has the known and substantial risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and requires routine prophylaxis, whereas the VTE risk associated with knee BMC injections is unknown. We report on the rate of VTE from a large orthobiologics patient registry and assess whether knee BMC procedures require routine prophylaxis.
Methods
A retrospective analysis of knee osteoarthritis cases tracked in a treatment registry and treated at 72 clinical sites with BMC from 2007 to 2020 who were not prophylactically anticoagulated was performed to identify adverse events (AEs) associated with VTE. Treating physicians were contacted to improve discovery of possible occurrences of VTE.
Results
Twenty cases (0.16%) of VTE were identified from the registry of 12,780 knee BMC treatments. These events were less frequent than the published data demonstrate for anticoagulated TKA patients.
Conclusion
Based on the rates of VTE from our retrospective treatment registry analysis compared to the risk of medication-induced haemorrhage, routine prophylactic anticoagulation is not recommended for intra-articular knee BMC procedures. Further research into safety and efficacy of BMC treatment for knee OA is warranted.
Clinical trial identifier
NCT03011398, retrospectively registered.