A study comparing two grafts for treatment of knee instability
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Anterior cruciate ligament injury/insuffieciency/tear
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/03/008098
- Lead Sponsor
- Jawaharlal institute of postgraduate medical education and research puducherry
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
patients with complete/partial ACL rupture with or without concomitant grade I and Grade II injuries to the collateral ligaments requiring surgery due to instability.
1 Patients presenting with an ACL injury greater than one year will be excluded from the
study.
2 Patients with avulsion fractures will be excluded from the study.
3 Inability to give informed consent for the study.
4 local active or suspected infection, systemic diseases that might influence the study
results.
5 Current or past injuries to the ipsi- or contralateral knee, possibly altering knee function,
including previous ACL rupture.
6 Patients with a concomitant posterior cruciate ligament injury
7 Concomitant articular cartilage lesions larger than 2 cm with a depth of more than 50%of
the cartilage thickness; and meniscal injuries involving more than two-thirds of the meniscus or the need for meniscus repair.
8 Mal-alignment of the lower extremity (greater than 5 mm of mechanical axis deviation as
measured on standing hip-knee-ankle radiographs).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method measurement of the one leg hop index after quadriceps tendon(QT) autograft and hamstrings tendon autograft for ACLR at the end of one year. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: one year after operation. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method measurement of the functional outcomes using subjective international knee documentation committee( IKDC) form.Timepoint: one year after operation