Care situation of knee ligament instability as a registry study.
- Conditions
- Patients with knee ligament instability
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031753
- Lead Sponsor
- BG Klinikum Hamburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 5000
All patients (>18 years) who were or will be treated at BG Klinikum Hamburg in the above-mentioned period due to a mishealed ligament instability will be included.
- Presence of a ligament injury of the knee joint requiring treatment (conservative or surgical).
- Presence of a signed declaration of consent for the scientific evaluation of patient data assigned to the treatment in question.
- Patients with pre-existing joint wear disease of the injured knee joint at the time of inclusion
- Patients who do not have an independently signed consent for data use (e.g., signature by relatives due to impaired cognitive function, as an exception, signatures of others as a witness function in the case of impaired hand function).
- Patients with impaired cognitive function which does not allow the nature of this registry study to be conveyed.
- Patients with multiple lower extremity injuries or polytrauma.
- Patients with previous ligament injuries of the affected knee joint as far as NO details about the treatment method are known.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The aim of this registry is the long-term evaluation of the clinical outcome (primary endpoint re-instability) of patients after surgical vs. conservative treatment of ligament instability, at least for a follow-up period of approximately 20 years.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The secondary endpoint is the evaluation of potential risk factors that influence a conservative or surgical therapeutic procedure.