Anterior Cruciate Ligament-reconstruction: Quadriceps Tendon or Hamstrings Tendon? A Prospective Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Ligament; Laxity, Knee; Rupture of Anterior Cruciate Ligament
• Interventions: Procedure: Quadriceps graft

• Registration Number: NCT02173483
• Lead Sponsor: Aarhus University Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a difference in muscle strength after anterior cruciate ligament comparing 2 surgery technics. Using either autograft hamstrings tendon or a autograft quadriceps tendon.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-05
• Study First Submitted: 2014-06-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-06-23
• Study First Posted: 2014-06-25
• Primary Completion: 2019-01
• Study Completion: 2019-01
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-25
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Anterior cruciate ligament rupture

Exclusion Criteria

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Quadriceps graft	Quadriceps graft	Proximally from patella the Quadriceps graft is harvested and used as a knew anterior cruciate ligament after rupture.
Hamstrings Graft	Quadriceps graft	The Hamstrings graft is harvested and used as a knew anterior cruciate ligament after rupture.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient reported outcome score - IKDC	12 month	IKDC (international Knee Documentation committee) subjective score (0-100)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knee laxity	12 month	KT-1000 arthrometer
Donor Site morbidity score	12 month	Patient reported outcome score (range 100-0)
Patient reported outcome score - KOOS	12 month	Koos (Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score) contains 5 subscores (Pain, ADL, QOL, Symptoms, Sport \& recreation). Each subscore ranges from 0-100 where higher values represent a better score.
TEGNER	12 month	Patient reported outcome score (range 0-10)
Anterior knee pain scale	12 month	Patient reported outcome score (range 0-100)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Division of Sports Trauma, Tage-Hansens Gade 2b; 🇩🇰 Aarhus, Denmark