Examples of using Chondrocelect in English and their translations into German
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What is ChondroCelect?
What is the risk associated with ChondroCelect?
How is ChondroCelect used?
Other information about ChondroCelect.
What is ChondroCelect used for?
For the full list of all side effects reported with ChondroCelect, see the package leaflet.
How has ChondroCelect been studied?
ChondroCelect is a suspension for implantation that contains cartilage cells.
What benefit has ChondroCelect shown during the studies?
ChondroCelect was also as effective as microfracture at improving symptoms.
The active substance in ChondroCelect is the patient's own cartilage cells.
ChondroCelect was more effective than microfracture at healing the defects in the cartilage.
After one year, when scans were performed and samples of cartilage were examined,patients who were treated with ChondroCelect showed better structural repair of their cartilage than patients treated with microfracture.
Patients treated with ChondroCelect should follow specific rehabilitation programme, including physiotherapy.
ChondroCelect must not be used in people who are hypersensitive(allergic) to any of the other ingredients or to bovine serum cow's blood.
Why has ChondroCelect been approved?
ChondroCelect is a medicine that is prepared specially for each individual patient and can only be used to treat the particular patient it was prepared for.
The CHMP considered that ChondroCelect was shown to be effective at treating defects in the knee cartilage between 1 and 5 cm2 in size, and that the safety profile was considered acceptable.
ChondroCelect was compared with microfracture(a type of surgery used to treat defects in cartilage) in one main study involving 118 adult patients with symptoms caused by defects in their knee cartilage.
In addition, the company that makes ChondroCelect will ensure that all surgeons and other healthcare professionals involved in the handling or use of ChondroCelect receive training materials on how to use the product.
Because ChondroCelect is an advanced therapy medicine, it was assessed by the Committee for Advanced Therapies CAT.