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Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions

Several studies have investigated cartilage degeneration and inflammatory subchondral bone and synovial membrane changes using magnetic resonance (MR) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Conversely, there is a paucity of data exploring the role of knee ligaments, infrapatellar fat pad (IFP), and suprap...

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Autores principales: Fontanella, Chiara Giulia, Belluzzi, Elisa, Pozzuoli, Assunta, Scioni, Manuela, Olivotto, Eleonora, Reale, Davide, Ruggieri, Pietro, De Caro, Raffaele, Ramonda, Roberta, Carniel, Emanuele Luigi, Favero, Marta, Macchi, Veronica
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9220326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35740391
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10061369
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author Fontanella, Chiara Giulia
Belluzzi, Elisa
Pozzuoli, Assunta
Scioni, Manuela
Olivotto, Eleonora
Reale, Davide
Ruggieri, Pietro
De Caro, Raffaele
Ramonda, Roberta
Carniel, Emanuele Luigi
Favero, Marta
Macchi, Veronica
author_facet Fontanella, Chiara Giulia
Belluzzi, Elisa
Pozzuoli, Assunta
Scioni, Manuela
Olivotto, Eleonora
Reale, Davide
Ruggieri, Pietro
De Caro, Raffaele
Ramonda, Roberta
Carniel, Emanuele Luigi
Favero, Marta
Macchi, Veronica
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description Several studies have investigated cartilage degeneration and inflammatory subchondral bone and synovial membrane changes using magnetic resonance (MR) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Conversely, there is a paucity of data exploring the role of knee ligaments, infrapatellar fat pad (IFP), and suprapatellar fat pad (SFP) in knee OA compared to post-traumatic cohorts of patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the volumetric and morphometric characteristics of the following joint tissues: IFP (volume, surface, depth, femoral and tibial arch lengths), SFP (volume, surface, oblique, antero–posterior, and cranio–caudal lengths), anterior (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) (volume, surface, and length), and patellar ligament (PL) (volume, surface, arc, depth, and length). Eighty-nine MR images were collected in the following three groups: (a) 32 patients with meniscal tears, (b) 29 patients with ACL rupture (ACLR), and (c) 28 patients affected by end-stage OA. Volume, surface, and length of both ACL and PCL were determined in groups a and c. A statistical decrease of IFP volume, surface, depth, femoral and tibial arch lengths was found in end-stage OA compared to patients with meniscal tear (p = 0.002, p = 0.008, p < 0.0001, p = 0.028 and p < 0.001, respectively) and patients with ACLR (p < 0.0001, p < 0.0001, p = 0.008 and p = 0.011, respectively). An increment of volume and surface SFP was observed in group b compared to both groups a and c, while no differences were found in oblique, antero–posterior, and cranio–caudal lengths of SFP among the groups. No statistical differences were highlighted comparing volume, surface, arc, and length of PL between the groups, while PL depth was observed to be decreased in end-OA patients compared with meniscal tear patients (p = 0.023). No statistical differences were observed comparing ACL and PCL lengths between patients undergoing meniscectomy and TKR. Our study confirms that IFP MR morphometric characteristics are different between controls and OA, supporting an important role of IFP in OA pathology and progression in accordance with previously published studies. In addition, PL depth changes seem to be associated with OA pathology. Multivariate analysis confirmed that OA patients had a smaller IFP compared to patients with meniscal tears, confirming its involvement in OA.
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spelling pubmed-92203262022-06-24 Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions Fontanella, Chiara Giulia Belluzzi, Elisa Pozzuoli, Assunta Scioni, Manuela Olivotto, Eleonora Reale, Davide Ruggieri, Pietro De Caro, Raffaele Ramonda, Roberta Carniel, Emanuele Luigi Favero, Marta Macchi, Veronica Biomedicines Article Several studies have investigated cartilage degeneration and inflammatory subchondral bone and synovial membrane changes using magnetic resonance (MR) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Conversely, there is a paucity of data exploring the role of knee ligaments, infrapatellar fat pad (IFP), and suprapatellar fat pad (SFP) in knee OA compared to post-traumatic cohorts of patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the volumetric and morphometric characteristics of the following joint tissues: IFP (volume, surface, depth, femoral and tibial arch lengths), SFP (volume, surface, oblique, antero–posterior, and cranio–caudal lengths), anterior (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) (volume, surface, and length), and patellar ligament (PL) (volume, surface, arc, depth, and length). Eighty-nine MR images were collected in the following three groups: (a) 32 patients with meniscal tears, (b) 29 patients with ACL rupture (ACLR), and (c) 28 patients affected by end-stage OA. Volume, surface, and length of both ACL and PCL were determined in groups a and c. A statistical decrease of IFP volume, surface, depth, femoral and tibial arch lengths was found in end-stage OA compared to patients with meniscal tear (p = 0.002, p = 0.008, p < 0.0001, p = 0.028 and p < 0.001, respectively) and patients with ACLR (p < 0.0001, p < 0.0001, p = 0.008 and p = 0.011, respectively). An increment of volume and surface SFP was observed in group b compared to both groups a and c, while no differences were found in oblique, antero–posterior, and cranio–caudal lengths of SFP among the groups. No statistical differences were highlighted comparing volume, surface, arc, and length of PL between the groups, while PL depth was observed to be decreased in end-OA patients compared with meniscal tear patients (p = 0.023). No statistical differences were observed comparing ACL and PCL lengths between patients undergoing meniscectomy and TKR. Our study confirms that IFP MR morphometric characteristics are different between controls and OA, supporting an important role of IFP in OA pathology and progression in accordance with previously published studies. In addition, PL depth changes seem to be associated with OA pathology. Multivariate analysis confirmed that OA patients had a smaller IFP compared to patients with meniscal tears, confirming its involvement in OA. MDPI 2022-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9220326/ /pubmed/35740391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10061369 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fontanella, Chiara Giulia
Belluzzi, Elisa
Pozzuoli, Assunta
Scioni, Manuela
Olivotto, Eleonora
Reale, Davide
Ruggieri, Pietro
De Caro, Raffaele
Ramonda, Roberta
Carniel, Emanuele Luigi
Favero, Marta
Macchi, Veronica
Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title_full Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title_fullStr Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title_short Exploring Anatomo-Morphometric Characteristics of Infrapatellar, Suprapatellar Fat Pad, and Knee Ligaments in Osteoarthritis Compared to Post-Traumatic Lesions
title_sort exploring anatomo-morphometric characteristics of infrapatellar, suprapatellar fat pad, and knee ligaments in osteoarthritis compared to post-traumatic lesions
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9220326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35740391
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10061369
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