Safety and Efficacy of Genicular Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Knee Pain Secondary to Osteoarthritis—Initial Indian Experience

Abstract

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is the commonest form of arthritis with pain and disability as hallmark symptoms. Despite various nonpharmacologic, pharmacologic, and surgical approaches, pain control may be hard to achieve. Over the last few years, few studies have been conducted on managing knee OA using novel endovascular genicular artery embolization (GAE) with varied outcomes. No such study has been reported in India yet to the best of our knowledge.

Keywords

• embolization
• genicular artery embolization
• osteoarthritis
• knee pain