Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male or female patients, aged 40 to 75 years; 2. Patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (VAS pain score between ≥ 3 and ≤ 8); 3. Unilateral involvement of symptomatology; 4. Radiographic or MRI signs of degenerative pathology of knee cartilage (Kellgren-Lawrence grade 1-3); 5. Failure, defined as the persistence of symptomatology, after at least one course of conservative treatment (pharmacological, physiotherapeutic or infiltrative treatment); 6. Hemoglobin \> 11 g/dl; Platelet count \> 150,000 plt/mm3 (Recently performed CBC examination); 7. Ability and consent of patients to actively participate in clinical follow-up; 8. Signature of informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients unable to express consent; 2. Patients undergoing intra-articular infiltration of other substance in the previous 6 months; 3. Patients undergoing knee surgery in the previous 12 months; 4. Patients with malignant neoplasms; 5. Patients with rheumatic diseases; 6. Patients with uncontrolled diabetes; 7. Patients with hematological diseases (coagulopathies); 8. Patients on anticoagulant-antiaggregant therapy that cannot be discontinued at the time of blood collection; 9. Patients with uncompensated thyroid metabolic disorders; 10. Patients abusing alcoholic beverages, drugs or medications; 11. Body Mass Index \> 35; 12. Patients who have taken NSAIDs in the 3 days prior to blood draw; 13. Patients with cardiovascular disease for whom blood sampling 30 to 60 ml would be contraindicated; 14. Patients with recently performed CBC examination with Hb\< 11 g/dl and Platelet values \< 150,000 plt/mm3. 15. Pregnant and/or fertile women.