RESEARCH ARTICLE
Are We Using Slow-Acting Symptomatic Chondroprotective Drugs Conscious Enough?
Seyit Ali Gumustas1, Kadir Oznam2, Cagri Ata Mutlu3, Yasin Emre Kaya4, Ibrahim Yilmaz5, *, Mehmet Isyar6, Aliye Yıldırım Guzelant7, Olcay Guler2, Semih Akkaya8, Mahir Mahirogullari9
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 533
Last Page: 540
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-11-533
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001711010533
Article History:
Received Date: 18/03/2017Revision Received Date: 20/04/2017
Acceptance Date: 14/05/2017
Electronic publication date: 31/05/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Osteochondral injuries constitute an entity that is widespread and can be seen in patients of all ages. Actual treatment modalities aim to relieve pain, obtain full range of movement of the joint, and improve the quality of life. There are many slow-acting chondroprotective agents prevalently used in the United States that are classified as nutritional support but not as medicines . This study presents the importance of clinical adverse effect profiles as well as the pharmacological mechanism of action and application of combinations of drugs that are widely prescribed and not subjected to control.
Methods:
Electronic databases were searched with keywords about the chondroprotective drugs without any language restriction. Evaluations of the descriptive statistics were represented via Microsoft Office Excel 2010 lists in the form of a mean±standard deviation or frequency (%). The first evaluation showed that 1502 studies were potentially relevant. Following exclusion of the 1277 studies which were not clinical, full versions of the remaining 225 studies were subjected to further evaluation. No controlled, blinded, randomized and/or comparative studies met the inclusion criteria of the study, and no studies evaluated the comparative clinical results of the hyaluronan of different molecular weights.
Results:
The findings of this study concluded that especially when prescribing drugs with ingredients like GS and CS, many patients’ pre-existing conditions must be considered, such as whether the patient has a glucose intolerance or not. Additionally, mineral toxication should be considered since the drugs contain minerals, and after the application of injected hyaluronan, complications should be considered.
Conclusion:
Clinical, controlled and comparative studies about the use of chondroprotective drugs must be performed to define the benefits of these drugs, if any, in order to determine the most suitable time for operative intervention.
