This study evaluated the benefits of the Hylano GF-20 use in the postoperative period of knee arthroscopies for irrigation and debridement due to arthrosis. Twenty knees of twenty patients underwent arthroscopy. They presented arthrosis up to 3rd classification degree, pain and had their knees blocked. The segmental treatment showed no improvement ,consequently irrigation associated with mild condral and meniscus debridement was performed according to each case. The patients were divided into two groups: arhtroscopy was performed in one; in the other, arthroscopy associated with the use of three weekly infiltrations of Hylano GF-20. The patients were evaluated according to the following variables: pain during night sleep; pain during movements with loads of 10% of the body weight; pain during more severe movements of the injured knee with visual scale and the daily amount of potassium diclofenac ingested to relieve the pain of the injured knee.The statistical results showed a significant improvement in relation to all studied variables of patients from the group submitted to the use of Hylano GF-20 infiltration in the postoperative period of knee arthroscopy due to arthrosis.
Knee; Arthrosis; Arthroscopy
