NCT02000258

Effect of Tunnel Placements on Clinical and MRI Findings Two Years After ACL Reconstruction With DB Technique

Effect of Tunnel Placements on Clinical and MRI Findings Two Years After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Double-Bundle Technique

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purpose: To find out whether the clinical and MRI findings two years after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction were associated with each other so that MRI-based graft invisibility in the anteromedial (AM) graft would have an impact on anteroposterior stability of the knee, and MRI-based posterolateral (PL) graft invisibility on rotational stability of the knee. Methods: 75 patients. One experienced orthopaedic surgeon performed all double-bundle (DB) ACL reconstructions. Two independent examiners made the clinical examinations at the two-year follow-up: clinical examination of the knee, KT-1000, International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) and Lysholm knee evaluation scores and IKDC functional score. The MRI evaluations were made by two musculoskeletal radiologists separately and the means of these measurements were used.

Conditions

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Double-bundle ACL reconstruction
DEVICE	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	MRI sequences were as follows: sagittal T1-weighted, proton density (PD)-weighted and T2-weighted fast spin echo (FSE) images with 4 mm slice and 1 mm gap, coronal T1-weighted and fat-saturated T2-weighted FSE images with 4 mm slice and 1 mm gap, axial fat saturated PD FSE images with 4 mm slice and 1 mm gap and oblique sagittal and oblique coronal T1 FSE images along AM graft plane with 3 mm slice and 0.3 mm gap.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2013-12-04
• Last updated: 2013-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland