Arthroscopic reconstruction for acute and chronic anterior cruciate ligament injuries using autologous or allogeneic tendon graft: an evaluation of reconstruction effects

doi:10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.0939

Abstract

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Therapeutic efficacy on acute and old injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament treated with arthroscopic autologous or allogenic tendon has not yet been well studied.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effect of arthroscopic reconstruction for acute and chronic anterior cruciate ligament injury using autologous or allogeneic tendon graft, and to discuss the clinical effectiveness of different implant materials at different reconstruction time.

METHODS: We collected 105 patients who received arthroscopic reconstruction for anterior cruciate ligament injury, and divided them into four groups according to different injury time and implant materials: acute autograft group (acute injury+autologous tendon, 25 cases); acute allograft group (acute injury+allogeneic tendon, 7 cases); old autograft group (old injury+autologous tendon, 55 cases); old allograft group (old injury+ allogeneic tendon, 18 cases). Lysholm scores were used to test patient’s knee function before and after surgery. The follow-up time was 70 months

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: There was a significant improvement in the knee function at 70 months after surgery, and the Lysholm scores of each patient was significantly increased as compared with the baseline (P < 0.05). We did the further analysis of single factor effects and found that the Lysholm score in the acute autograft group was significantly high than that in the acute allograft group (P < 0.05). Therefore, early reconstruction using arthroscopic autologous tendon is of clinical benefit for anterior cruciate ligament injuries to restore the knee function.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点：生物材料；骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性；组织工程

Key words: Tissue Engineering, Biocompatible Materials, Anterior Cruciate Ligament

CLC Number:

R318

Xiang Shan-shan, Fu Ming, Zhang Zhi-qi, Yang Zi-bo, Chen Zhong-xian. Arthroscopic reconstruction for acute and chronic anterior cruciate ligament injuries using autologous or allogeneic tendon graft: an evaluation of reconstruction effects[J]. Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research, 2018, 22(26): 4174-4178.

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