A method for repairing a cartilage defect according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, preparing a cartilage defect for implantation of a cartilage graft and attaching the cartilage graft via a transosseus tunnel.

A multicomponent implant system includes a multicomponent implant comprising a base plate and a load plate. The base plate includes a bone facing surface and a base plate interface surface. The load plate includes a load plate interface surface and a load bearing surface, the load bearing surface being substantially parallel to the load plate interface surface and having a contour substantially corresponding to a contour of a removed portion of the articular surface. Both the load plate interface surface and base plate interface surface have a contour substantially corresponding to the contour of the load bearing surface. The load plate is configured to be advanced in an arcuate direction to slidably couple the load plate to the base plate after the base plate has been secured within the first excision site by an anchor.

Embodiments described herein relate to a patch securing system including a patch implant, and a suture system configured to translocate the patch implant into a patient and secure it to a desired tissue. In some embodiments, a system is configured to dispose an implant in a patient and to secure the implant to a desired tissue includes a patch, a sleeve having a lumen extending through the longitudinal axis of the sleeve, where the sleeve is configured to reversibly transition between a constricted configuration and an expanded configuration, a first constricting suture configured to pass at least partially through the lumen and the patch, and a second constricting suture configured to pass at least partially through the lumen and the patch, where the first constricting suture and the second constricting suture are configured to translocate the implant to a location contacting the desired tissue and to secure the implant thereto.

A method of attaching target tissue to a pilot hole in a bone that utilizes a suture assembly having an anchor sleeve; a sliding suture, having a first end and a second end, and passing through the anchor sleeve; and a shuttle having a shuttle loop and a free end, opposed to the shuttle loop, and passing through the anchor sleeve, with the free end and the shuttle outside of the anchor sleeve. In the method, the sliding suture is passed about the target tissue and the first end is engaged to the shuttle loop. Then, the anchor sleeve is pushed into the pilot hole, and the free end is pulled to pull the shuttle into the anchor sleeve in the pilot hole, thereby setting the anchor sleeve into the pilot hole.

This disclosure relates to surgical fixation systems and methods. The surgical fixation systems may include one or more loops and one or more reinforcement materials. The surgical fixation systems can be used in various knotless tissue repair procedures.

Dry cellulose-reinforced hydrogels may include a cellulose nanofiber network and an interstitial hydrogel portion within interstitial regions of the cellulose nanofiber network, the interstitial hydrogel portion comprising a hydrogel that is dry. The dry hydrogel implant may be inserted into the body and allowed to rehydrate in situ.