Clinical Follow-up After ACL Reconstruction

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Deficiency of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Injury of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Knee Injuries Leg Injuries Wounds and Injuries

Age range

16 year–50 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital

Bergen, Norway

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Patients reconstructed with the given technique

Exclusion criteria

Patients reconstructed with other techniques
Concomitant ligamental surgery
Bilateral ACL injury
Revision surgery

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Revision surgery

Time frame: 10 years

When patients have had a new ACL reconstruction of the ACL

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Bergen Knee Group

Other

Registry information

Official study title

10-year Follow-up After ACL Reconstruction With Howells Guide, Transtibial Drilling and Hamstrings Graft

Acronym: Howell

Important dates

Study start: 2011
Primary completion: 2012
Study completion: 2012
First posted: May 30, 2012
Registry last updated: May 30, 2012

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