NCT06858943

Can Tendon Autograft Function As a Meniscal Transplant

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Purpose: To evaluate the functional outcomes after using peroneus longus (PL) tendon autograft as meniscal transplantation in patients with knee joint line pain exaggerated with weight bearing following prior total or subtotal meniscectomy.

Detailed description

This research design is a single center prospective study carried out at a tertiary trauma center hospital between May 2022 and December 2022. This research had ethical Committee Approval which was granted by the Ethics Committee of Cairo University (Institutional Review Board (IRB) number N 207-2024). All patients signed an informed consent before joining this study. This study included 25 patients, with previous history of subtotal or total meniscectomy medially or laterally, who underwent meniscus transplantation using PL tendon autograft.

Conditions

• Meniscectomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	arthroscopic meniscus reconstruction using a tendon autograft	arthroscopic meniscus reconstruction using a tendon autograft

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2025-03-05
• Last updated: 2025-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt