Treatment of Anterior Ligament Rupture With Internal Brace Repair - A Prospective Randomised Controlled Study.

Aarhus University Hospital

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Ligament; Laxity, Knee; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

Treatments: Procedure: Repair

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03800225

Danish EC - 1-10-72-223-18.

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether anterior cruciate ligament injury in patients wishing to return to sports activities may be treated with repair supplemented with internal brace compared with a standard operation using a patella tendon autograft.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Anterior cruciate ligament rupture

Exclusion criteria

• Current malignant disease
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Other knee ligament instability
• Obesity BMI >30
• Morbus Bechterew

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4 participants in 2 patient groups

Repair

Experimental group

Description:

Anterior cruciate ligament repair with internal brace after anterior ligament rupture.

Treatment:

Procedure: Repair

Patella tendon graft

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Patella tendon graft is harvested and used as a knew anterior cruciate ligament after rupture.

Treatment:

Procedure: Repair