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BioCartilage Update 2013
1. BioCartilage
Alan M. Hirahara, M.D., FRCS(C)
Board Certified in Orthopaedic Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Specializing in arthroscopic shoulder surgery
Medical Director Team Physician Consultant
Sacramento State Athletics Sacramento River Cats Oakland A’s
MiLB - AAA
2. Micronized Cartilage ECM
• Potential augment for Microfracture
– Provides cartilage ECM scaffold
– Allows for BM MSC attachment and growth
– Stem Cells exposed to ECM will differentiate based on factors present within the matrix
– Glycoproteins/Proteoglycans
– Simple / inexpensive
• Cheng et al (Tissue Engineering 2009)
– Adult stem cells seeded onto the lyophilized cartilage scaffold
– Chondrogenesis of ASCs evident by PCR & immunohistochemical examination
– Resembled native articular cartilage
Cheng N et al. Tissue Engineering 2009.
3. BioCartilage ECM
Micronized Cartilage Matrix
• Potential augment for microfracture?
– Allograft cartilage ECM scaffold
– Allows for BM MSC attachment and growth
– Simplistic / inexpensive
• In vitro evidence supporting this theory:
– Adipose stem cells seeded onto lyophilized cartilage
scaffold
– Chondrogenesis of ASCs evident by PCR and
immunohistochemistry
• Abundant production of type II collagen
– Cellular morphology resembled native articular cartilage
– Cheng N et al. Chondrogenic differentiation of adipose-
derived adult stem cells by a porous scaffold derived from
native articular cartilage extracellular matrix. Tissue
Engineering 2009; 15(2): 231-41.
4. BioCartilage ECM
Micronized Cartilage Matrix
• In vivo supportive evidence:
– Same scaffolding material used within the previous mentioned
in vitro study
– Medial femoral condyle defects created within a rabbit model
• Control group = microfracture performed
• Treatment group = MFx plus lyophilized cartilage fagments
formed into a scaffold Control Group
– Treatment group had persistent upregulation of cartilage
phenotypic markers: Type II Collagen and Aggrecan
– Chadha N et al. Porous Cartilage-Derived Matrix Scaffolds for
Repair of Articular Cartilage Defects. ORS 2012; Poster No. 0735.
Treatment Group
5. Literature
• Re: Tendon-to-bone healing. “Increase in the strength of the
interface … [is] proportional to the amount of osseous ingrowth.”
• Rodeo, Arnoczky et al., JBJS(A) 1993;75: 1795–1803
• Improving the osteoconductive/inductive environment
improves tendon-bone healing
• Shen H, et al. Int Orthop. 2010;34;(6)917-24.
• Hioki S, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2012;40;(8)1772-80.
• Kadonishi Y, et al. JBJS(B). 2012;94;(2)205-9.
6. BioCartilage ECM
Micronized Cartilage Matrix
• In vivo supportive evidence:
– Baboon osteochondral defects filled with
micronized cartilage particulate
• 15 mm diameter, 10 mm depth
– By 9 weeks had gross appearance of
hyaline like cartilage
– Histo: Newly formed cartilage cells,
normal appearing proteoglycan content
– Control group remained open or
contained uneven patches of tissue
– Malinin T et al. Induction of regeneration
of articular cartilage defects by freeze
dried particulate cartilage allografts. ICRS
2009 Meeting; poster presentation.
12 weeks
7. BioCartilage ECM
Micronized Cartilage Matrix
• Future In vivo support:
– Full thickness cartilage defects
– Microfracture vs. BioCartilage
– Cole, Fortier, Cook
• Future clinical support:
– Post market release study for
femoral condyle lesions
– Post market release study for
talar lesions
8. DeNovo NT (Zimmer)
• DeNovo NT
– Juvenile, allograft cartilage minced
into 1 mm cubes
– Priced around $4,500
• BioCartilage = $750
– Shelf life less than 1 month
• BioCartilage = 4 years
– Arthroscopic application is difficult
• BioCartilage has paste like consistency
when mixed with autologous blood ,
allowing for delivery through a needle
9. Microfracture “Plus”
Sheep Pre-Clinical
• BST CarGel Model
– Piramal Healthcare
– Chitosan based scaffold
mixed with blood
• Shrimp exoskeleton Microfractur Chitosan +
e Blood
– Received CE mark
approval April 2012
– Conducting randomized
pivotal trial in Canada
Gross – 6 Histo – 6
month month
10. Relative Costs
• ACI (Genzyme) • BioCartilage (Arthrex)
– $10,000 – $750
• Cost for cultured cells – Morselized, dehydrated cartilage
– Must add costs of two surgeries – Arthroscopic
– Open Procedure
• DoNovo NT (Zimmer)
– $4,500 – Live cells
– Juvenile, allograft cartilage
minced into 1 mm cubes
– Open procedure
16. How Should We Do It?
Open Arthroscopy
• Easy • Very challenging
• Inexpensive • Clean margins
• Quick – Curette / Burr
• Instrumentation
– Cannulas
– Double lumen applicator for
fibrin covering
19. Tips
• Overlay fibrin glue (Evicel) to adhere to native
cartilage
– Use a double lumen syringe system
– Don’t overuse fibrin, add slowly & carefully
– Tisseel has own double lumen syringe avail.
• Use cannula
– Easier, more reliable instrument insertion
– Not to disturb fibrin clot or sculpted biocartilage
• Make good vertical margins
– Prefer curette with microfracture
– BEWARE making divots with burrs
20. Tips
• Suction out fluid
– Keep it DRY!!!
• Do not overhydrate BioCartilage with ACP
– 1.0 cc
– Want a “tacky paste”
21. My Experience
Shoulders – 6 Knees – 4
• All humeral head lesions • 2 Trochlear lesions
• 1 LFC lesion
• 1 MFC lesion
All procedures performed arthroscopically