Dear Ezequiel, I am a veterinary surgeon, however in practical terms a joint is the same in any species. I know doctor Lluis Orozco from Tecknon Clinic at Barcelona, he is a human orthopedical surgeon and have used PRP in this kind o problems, please see his web site http://www.itrt.es/
In addition we have treated horses with OA with good results and recently we published an study in dogs with CCL rupture which were surgically stabilized and treated with PRP with encouraging results.
Finally, your question ("could PRP be used as OA preventive?") is in fact a generalized question and there are not enough data for to accept or reject this hypothesis.
Dear Ezequiel
These articles may be useful for you
1) J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2012 Dec 5;94(23):e1721-7.
Platelet-rich plasma increases matrix metalloproteinases in cultures of human synovial fibroblasts.
Browning SR1, Weiser AM, Woolf N, Golish SR, SanGiovanni TP, Scuderi GJ, Carballo C, Hanna LS.
2) Foot Ankle Clin. 2013 Sep;18(3):437-48.
Conservative treatment of asymmetric ankle osteoarthritis.
Schmid T1, Krause FG.
3) Clin Med Insights Arthritis Musculoskelet Disord. 2013 Sep 4;6:65-72.
Regenerative injection therapy with whole bone marrow aspirate for degenerative joint disease: a case series.
Hauser RA1, Orlofsky A.
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