Crosslinker enhanced repair of knee meniscus
AssigneeOrthopeutics, L.P.
InventorsThomas P. Hedman, Paul Slusarewicz
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Abstract
A method of treating a tear in a knee meniscus of a patient. The method includes exposing the torn knee meniscus to a protein crosslinker during surgery to repair the tear. Also provided is a fixation device for the surgical repair of tears of the meniscus of the knee, where the device contains one or more protein crosslinking reagents.
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A method of treating a tear in a knee meniscus of a patient, comprising contacting a torn knee meniscus with a delivery device comprising a protein crosslinking agent during surgery to repair the tear, wherein the crosslinking agent increases the number of covalent crosslink bonds in native tissue in the knee meniscus.
A delivery device for contacting the knee meniscus of a patient, the device comprising a patch or fixation device comprising a protein crosslinking agent.
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