Effect of Tunnel Placements on Clinical and MRI Findings Two Years After ACL Reconstruction With DB Technique

Tampere University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture

Treatments: Procedure: Double-bundle ACL reconstruction; Device: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02000258

R02071

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: To find out whether the clinical and MRI findings two years after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction were associated with each other so that MRI-based graft invisibility in the anteromedial (AM) graft would have an impact on anteroposterior stability of the knee, and MRI-based posterolateral (PL) graft invisibility on rotational stability of the knee.

Methods: 75 patients. One experienced orthopaedic surgeon performed all double-bundle (DB) ACL reconstructions. Two independent examiners made the clinical examinations at the two-year follow-up: clinical examination of the knee, KT-1000, International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) and Lysholm knee evaluation scores and IKDC functional score. The MRI evaluations were made by two musculoskeletal radiologists separately and the means of these measurements were used.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• primary ACL reconstruction, closed growth plates

Exclusion criteria

• ligament injury to the opposite knee

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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75 participants in 2 patient groups

Double-bundle ACL reconstruction

Other group

Description:

Double-bundle ACL reconstruction

Treatment:

Procedure: Double-bundle ACL reconstruction

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Other group

Description:

MRI of the ACL double-bundle reconstructed knee was done at 2 years after surgery.

Treatment:

Device: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)