Can Tendon Autograft Function As a Meniscal Transplant (DR)

Cairo University (CU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Meniscectomy

Treatments

Procedure: arthroscopic meniscus reconstruction using a tendon autograft

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06858943

N 207-2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: To evaluate the functional outcomes after using peroneus longus (PL) tendon autograft as meniscal transplantation in patients with knee joint line pain exaggerated with weight bearing following prior total or subtotal meniscectomy.

Full description

This research design is a single center prospective study carried out at a tertiary trauma center hospital between May 2022 and December 2022. This research had ethical Committee Approval which was granted by the Ethics Committee of Cairo University (Institutional Review Board (IRB) number N 207-2024). All patients signed an informed consent before joining this study. This study included 25 patients, with previous history of subtotal or total meniscectomy medially or laterally, who underwent meniscus transplantation using PL tendon autograft.

Enrollment

25 patients

Sex

All

Ages

22 to 40 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Skeletally mature patients with a history of prior subtotal or total (medial or lateral meniscus) meniscectomy.
Post meniscectomy symptoms (medial or lateral knee joint line pain exaggerated with weight bearing).

Exclusion criteria

Multi-ligamentous knee injuries.
Skeletally immature patients.
Significant osteoarthritic changes on radiographs (Ahlbäck II- V).
Malalignment on full-length radiographs showing increased stress in the involved knee compartment.
Presence of associated ipsilateral ankle joint problem.