Sham Knee Surgery as Good as the Real Thing? No difference in outcomes for patients with degenerative meniscal tears and no OA

After 2 years of follow-up, arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) was no better than sham surgery for patients with degenerative medial meniscal tears and no evidence of knee osteoarthritis, reported Finnish researchers in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Comparing partial meniscectomy and sham-surgery patients, Teppo LN Jarvinen, MD, PhD, of the University of Helsinki, and colleagues found no significant between-group differences 24 months after surgery: https://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/Orthopedics/65626?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2017-05-30&eun=g721819d0r&pos=0