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Clinical Follow-up After ACL Reconstruction

Completed
Conditions
Deficiency of Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Injury of Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Registration Number
NCT01607437
Lead Sponsor
Bergen Knee Group
Brief Summary

No former studies have done long-term evaluation on patients reconstructed with hamstrings graft, the use of Howells tibial guide and transtibial drilling of the femoral graft tunnel. The investigators aim to evaluate clinical, radiographic and subjective outcome at a minimum of 10 years after surgery. According to former published studies on alike methods, the use of transtibial drilling of the femoral graft tunnel causes an increased rotational instability of the knee. The investigators aim to map the clinical stability of this group as well as evaluating the general outcome at the long-time horizon.

Detailed Description

Patients will be invited to a clinical follow-up with x-ray of the knee, scoring of Lysholm and IKDC subjective scores, clinical examination including instrumented testing with a KT-1000. After informed consent data will be collected from patient records and stored in a secured internal database. Analysis will be done with the SPSS package.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
96
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients reconstructed with the given technique
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients reconstructed with other techniques
  • Concomitant ligamental surgery
  • Bilateral ACL injury
  • Revision surgery

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Revision surgery10 years

When patients have had a new ACL reconstruction of the ACL

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital

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Bergen, Norway

Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital
🇳🇴Bergen, Norway

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