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Older, nonactive patients are traditionally steered toward total knee arthroplasty (TKA), but younger, active patients are not good candidates for TKA based on implant longevity, complications, morbidity, and risk for revision, such that treatment strategies at restoring missing hyaline cartilage and bone are highly desired for this patient population. Over the past four decades, fresh osteochondral allograft (OCA) transplantation has been developed as a treatment method for large (&gt;\u20092.5\u2009cm2) focal full-thickness articular cartilage lesions. This article documents our own institutional OCA journey since 2016 through enhanced graft preservation techniques (the Missouri Osteochondral Preservation System, or MOPS), technical improvements in surgical techniques, use of bone marrow aspirate concentrate, bioabsorbable pins and nails, and prescribed and monitored patient-specific rehabilitation protocols. Further follow-up with documentation of long-term outcomes will provide insight for continued optimization for future applications for OCA transplantation, potentially including a broader spectrum of patients appropriate for this treatment. Ongoing translational research is necessary to blaze the trail in further optimizing this treatment option for patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0040-1714366","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,20]],"date-time":"2020-07-20T23:11:43Z","timestamp":1595286703000},"page":"1172-1179","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Fresh Osteochondral Allograft Transplants in the Knee: Bipolar and Beyond"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"33","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8467-6494","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"James P.","family":"Stannard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"},{"name":"Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James T.","family":"Stannard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"},{"name":"Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anna J.","family":"Schreiner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"},{"name":"Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri"},{"name":"BG Center for Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Eberhard Karls University of T\u00fcbingen, T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,20]]},"reference":[{"issue":"02","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"160","DOI":"10.1097\/BOR.0000000000000479","article-title":"Epidemiology of osteoarthritis: literature update","volume":"30","author":"E R Vina","year":"2018","journal-title":"Curr Opin Rheumatol"},{"issue":"11","key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1797","DOI":"10.1016\/j.joca.2017.07.022","article-title":"Projected increase in total knee arthroplasty in the United States - 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