By Ed Susman
A minimally invasive procedure may reduce symptoms of knee osteoarthritis, results of a German retrospective single-center study suggested.
In patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis that didn’t respond to conservative treatments, quality-of-life and pain scores improved by 87% and 71%, respectively, at 1-year follow-up after receiving genicular artery embolization, reported Florian Nima Fleckenstein, MD, an interventional radiologist at Charité-University Hospital Berlin during the Radiological Society of North Americaopens in a new tab or window annual meeting.
“Most patients say they experience rapid pain relief,” Fleckenstein said. “Remarkably, we achieved technical success in 100% of the procedures with no severe complications. Patients reported only minor side effects such as temporary skin discoloration and mild knee pain.”
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