35-year-old man injured playing soccer transplant meniscus knee “home” New Business News (Reporter Wang Jun) 35-year-old Zhang Yu is a sports enthusiast, he was suddenly injured while playing soccer, to the hospital examination found that: the right knee lateral meniscus compound tear. Considering his better physical condition and strong desire to resume sports, orthopedic surgeons implemented meniscus transplantation for him. Cornea, bone marrow can be transplanted, meniscus can also be transplanted? The reporter learned that now Dalian has taken the lead in the northeast to carry out allogeneic meniscus transplantation. For common sports injuries meniscus tear, the current treatment is, resection of the patient’s meniscus in order to alleviate the pain symptoms, but after surgery, the cushion is gone, if you still carry out strenuous exercise program, joint wear and tear increased, the patient may therefore lead to degenerative knee joint disease, joint pain. Especially young patients like Zhang Yu, less than the age of joint replacement, to have a complete meniscus in order to resume a normal sports life. Recently, Prof. Wang Weiming, Chief Physician of the Department of Orthopaedics at Zhongshan Hospital affiliated with Dalian University, contacted the Meniscus Tissue Bank at the Third Affiliated Hospital of North Medicine for Zhang Yu. There, intact menisci from a number of donors are cryogenically preserved all year round. Before the surgery, by taking X-rays, Wang Weiming measured the size of the patient’s meniscus, and based on that size selected a matching meniscus from the tissue bank. After retrieval from Beijing, the meniscus continued to be cryopreserved until the surgery. During the surgery, Prof. Wang Weiming arthroscopically removed the patient’s original meniscus, which had completely lost its function, and transplanted the new meniscus into the patient’s right knee joint. After a series of rehabilitation programs, six months later, Zhang Yu’s new meniscus has replaced the original broken meniscus “on duty”, he can resume normal sports. Due to the meniscus structure less cellular components, the new meniscus into the human body will not have a significant rejection reaction. The reporter learned that, in daily life, sprained knee caused by meniscus tear is the most common sports injuries, and the vast majority of this injury is irreversible, so the meniscus injury must be to the professional sports medicine center for reasonable diagnosis and treatment.