MRI Study of Ballooning and Ligamentisation Short Transplants ACL Hamstring According to Technical DT4 (MRI-DT4)

University Hospital, Lille

Status: Completed

Conditions: Displacement of Bone Allograft; Deficiency of Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02626975

2014-A01413-44 (Other Identifier)

2013_50

Details and patient eligibility

About

MRI study of ballooning and ligamentisation short transplants of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) according to DT4 technique in 60 patients with more than one year of follow up.

Full description

Monocentric study in the CHRU Lille in which the first goal is to estimate the frequency of tunnel's ballooning in a surgical anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using short transplants of hamstrings.

the secondary goals Secondary goals of this study are the estimation of ligamentisation if ballooning or not, the comparison of sagittal laximetry between "ballooned" group and "not ballooned"one, the clinical results in IKDC score (International Knee Documentation Committee subjective fee form) and KOOS (Knee injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score) between the "ballooned" group and the "not ballooned"one.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults patients of both sexes with an hamstring ACL ligamentoplasty done in our institution with a follow up of 1 year
• isolated ACL ligamentoplasty
• insured patients with a signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• follow up inferior of 1 year
• absolute contraindication to knee MRI
• gadolinium allergy
• severe renal failure
• non isolated ACL ligamentoplasty
• patient under guardianship, minor
• pregnant woman or nursing mother

Trial design

24 participants in 1 patient group

ACL reconstruction ballooning

Description:

ACL reconstruction with short hamstring tendon autograft * arm ballooning * arm no ballooning