Orthopedic surgeons and regenerative medicine specialists at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic are developing a new knee joint restoration procedure.
The REcycled CartiLage Auto/Allo IMplantation project is led by orthopedic surgeon Daniel Saris, MD, PhD, according to an April 21 news release from the system.
RECLAIM is a knee procedure that enables tissue growth and restoration of damaged cartilage in the joint by removing cartilage from a damaged knee and mixing the cells with healthy donor mesenchymal stem cells. The mixture is then injected into the knee, enabling the body to repair the damaged cartilage on its own, the release said.
The procedure was first performed in a clinical trial from 2018 to 2024. The FDA granted RECLAIM a regenerative medicine advanced therapy designation.
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