This long term follow-up study is performed to assess the long-term safety and efficacy of CARTISTEM®, human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells, in repair of cartilage injury or defects, compared with microfracture. Subjects, who were either administered CARTISTEM or treated with conventional microfracture in the primary phase III study (NCT01041001), will be further observed using various subjective knee assessments and MRI T2 mapping until the 60 month post-treatment timepoint.
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