Originally Posted by
veryhrm
where do you live? all surgeries have risk, but arthroscopic knee surgery isn't particularly dangerous as surgeries go.
My comment/suggestion would be that he find a surgeon that's more about sewing things up rather than cutting things out. In my experience (as a lay person and ocassional patient) US surgeons want to do as much removal, replacement or remodelling of your parts as you're willing to let them get away with :-)
oh, also unless he's had an MRI or explorative surgery(unlikely) don't put TOO much stock in the specifics of the diagnosis. Even w/ an MRI it's not always clear what the state of the cartilage is until the doc actually looks at it during surgery.