Education

M.D., Ph.D., Medical School, TMDU, 1979

Current position

Professor, Department of Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine
Chief of Sports Medicine and Knee Surgery Group, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) Medical Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Publications

1. Watanabe, T., Muneta, T., Yagishita, K., Hara, K., Koga, H. and Sekiya, I. (2016). Closed Suction Drainage Is Not Necessary for Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective Study on Simultaneous Bilateral Surgeries of a Mean Follow-Up of 5.5 Years. J Arthroplasty 31(3): 641-645.
   
2. Nakagawa, Y., Sekiya, I., Kondo, S., Tabuchi, T., Ichinose, S., Koga, H., Tsuji, K. and Muneta, T. (2016). Relationship between MRI T1 rho value and histological findings of intact and radially incised menisci in microminipigs. J Magn Reson Imaging 43(2): 434-445.
   
3. Muneta, T., Koga, H., Nakamura, T., Horie, M., Watanabe, T., Yagishita, K. and Sekiya, I. (2015). A new behind-remnant approach for remnant-preserving double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared with a standard approach. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 23(12): 3743-3749.
   
4. Matsukura, Y., Muneta, T., Tsuji, K., Miyatake, K., Yamada, J., Abula, K., Koga, H., Tomita, M. and Sekiya, I. (2015). Mouse synovial mesenchymal stem cells increase in yield with knee inflammation. J Orthop Res 33(2): 246-253.
   
5. Koga, H., Muneta, T., Yagishita, K., Watanabe, T., Mochizuki, T., Horie, M., Nakamura, T., Otabe, K. and Sekiya, I. (2015). Mid- to long-term results of single-bundle versus double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: randomized controlled trial. Arthroscopy 31(1): 69-76.
   
6. Koga, H., Muneta, T., Yagishita, K., Watanabe, T., Mochizuki, T., Horie, M., Nakamura, T., Otabe, K. and Sekiya, I. (2015). Effect of posterolateral bundle graft fixation angles on clinical outcomes in double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Sports Med 43(5): 1157-1164.
   
7. Nakagawa, Y., Muneta, T., Kondo, S., Mizuno, M., Takakuda, K., Ichinose, S., Tabuchi, T., Koga, H., Tsuji, K. and Sekiya, I. (2015). Synovial mesenchymal stem cells promote healing after meniscal repair in microminipigs. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 23(6): 1007-1017.
   
8. Sekiya, I., Muneta, T., Horie, M. and Koga, H. (2015). Arthroscopic Transplantation of Synovial Stem Cells Improves Clinical Outcomes in Knees With Cartilage Defects. Clin Orthop Relat Res 473(7): 2316-2326.
   
9. Muneta, T. (2015). Twenty-Year Experience of a Double-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Clin Orthop Surg 7(2): 143-151.
   
10. Koga, H., Muneta, T., Yagishita, K., Watanabe, T., Mochizuki, T., Horie, M., Nakamura, T. and Sekiya, I. (2014). Effect of Notchplasty in Anatomic Double-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Am J Sports Med 42(8): 1813-1821.
    
11. Okuno, M., Muneta, T., Koga, H., Ozeki, N., Nakagawa, Y., Tsuji, K., Yoshiya, S. and Sekiya, I. (2014). Meniscus regeneration by syngeneic, minor mismatched, and major mismatched transplantation of synovial mesenchymal stem cells in a rat model. J Orthop Res 32(7): 928-936.
    
12. Ozeki, N., Muneta, T., Koga, H., Katagiri, H., Otabe, K., Okuno, M., Tsuji, K., Kobayashi, E., Matsumoto, K., Saito, H., Saito, T. and Sekiya, I. (2013). Transplantation of Achilles tendon treated with bone morphogenetic protein 7 promotes meniscus regeneration in a rat model of massive meniscal defect. Arthritis Rheum 65(11): 2876-2886.
    
13. Muneta, T., Koga, H., Ju, Y. J., Horie, M., Nakamura, T. and Sekiya, I. (2013). Remnant volume of anterior cruciate ligament correlates preoperative patients' status and postoperative outcome. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 21(4): 906-913.
    
14. Koga, H., Muneta, T., Yagishita, K., Watanabe, T., Mochizuki, T., Horie, M., Nakamura, T., Okawa, A. and Sekiya, I. (2012). Arthroscopic centralization of an extruded lateral meniscus. Arthrosc Tech 1(2): e209-212.
    
15. Muneta, T., Hara, K., Ju, Y. J., Mochizuki, T., Morito, T., Yagishita, K. and Sekiya, I. (2010). Revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by double-bundle technique using multi-strand semitendinosus tendon. Arthroscopy 26(6): 769-781.
    
16. Muneta, T., Koga, H., Mochizuki, T., Ju, Y. J., Hara, K., Nimura, A., Yagishita, K. and Sekiya, I. (2007). A prospective randomized study of 4-strand semitendinosus tendon anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction comparing single-bundle and double-bundle techniques. Arthroscopy 23(6): 618-628.
    
17. Muneta, T., Sekiya, I., Yagishita, K., Ogiuchi, T., Yamamoto, H. and Shinomiya, K. (1999). Two-bundle reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament using semitendinosus tendon with endobuttons: operative technique and preliminary results. Arthroscopy 15(6): 618-624.