title: Editorial Commentary: Role of Synovial Biomarkers in Patient Outcomes After Knee Arthroscopy.
abstract: Humans are notably poor at predicting event outcomes. In "Correlation of Synovial Fluid Biomarkers With Cartilage Pathology and Associated Outcomes in Knee Arthroscopy," Cuellar, Cuellar, Kirsch, and Strauss show that some synovial fluid biomarkers (20 were sampled for the investigation) may predict operative findings at the time of arthroscopy and patient-reported outcome measures at follow-up. Further research will clarify the role of synovial biomarkers in knee pathology and, hopefully, narrow the choices to one or two pertinent markers that can be used to improve our ability to predict outcomes from arthroscopic knee surgery.
authors.forename: Jefferson C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Brand
mesh_terms: D001182:Arthroscopy; D015415:Biomarkers; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D011379:Prognosis; D013582:Synovial Fluid
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers