Chronological changes in anterior knee stability after anatomical anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone graft and hamstrings graft Kohei Kawaguchi, Shuji Taketomi, Hiroshi Inui, Ryota Yamagami, Kenichi Kono, Keiu Nakazato, Kentaro Takagi, Manabu Kawata, Sakae Tanaka The University of Tokyo Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
12th Biennial ISAKOS Congress May 12-16, 2019 Cancun, Mexico Declaration of Interest I have no conflicts of interest. Kohei Kawaguchi M.D.
Introduction The bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) and the hamstring tendon (HT) are commonly utilized autografts for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) in Japan. BTB VS HT BTB = HT BTB > HT BTB < HT Stability: Dai et al. KSSTA 2016 3 Amano et al. KSSTA 2018 1 Taketomi et al. J knee Surg 2018 2 Clinical scores: Samuelson et al. CORR 2017 4 Stability: Taketomi et al. J knee Surg 2018 2 Surgical failure: Cristiani et al. KSSTA 2018 5 Less anterior knee pain: Kautzer et al. SICOT 2015 6 These studies evaluated anterior knee stability at only final follow-up. Chronological changes and differences between BTB and HT were unknown.
Objectives 1) To characterize the chronological changes in anterior knee stability after anatomical ACLR with BTB and HT. 2) To evaluate the anterior knee stability achieved with BTB with that of HT. Materials and Methods 123 consecutive patients received anatomical ACLR at our institute between April 2013 and August 2016. Of these, 82 were included in our study. Inclusion criteria a rectangular tunnel ACLR using a BTB or a double-bundle ACLR using HT no previous knee ligament injury or osteotomy around the knee no re-injury of ipsilateral ACL or no injury of contralateral ACL during the postoperative period clinical assessments performed at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years
Surgical Technique BTB Typical tunnel position (3D CT) Anatomical rectangular tunnel BTB Shino et al. Arthroscopy 2005 7 Femoral tunnel was placed using a 3D fluoroscopy-based navigation system. Taketomi et al. Arthroscopy 2014 8 Grafts were fixed at 0 knee flexion with 80N tension using Endobutton and DSP small (Smith & Nephew). HT Typical tunnel position (3D CT) Anatomical double-bundle Taketomi et al. J knee Surg 2018 2 Femoral tunnels were placed using a 3D fluoroscopy-based navigation system. Taketomi et al. Arthroscopy 2014 8 AM and PL were fixed at 0 knee flexion with 40N tension using Endobutton and DSP small.
Anterior knee stability Anterior knee stability was evaluated at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years after ACLR KneeLax3 arthrometer (Monitored Rehab Systems, Haarlem, the Netherlands) Showed side-to-side differences (mm) between the ipsilateral knee and the contralateral knee Subjective outcomes Clinical subjective assessment was performed 1 year and 2 years postoperatively. Lysholm score Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)
Results : Patient demographics BTB HT P value Number of patients 59 23 Gender (female/male) 16/43 18/5 <0.01 Age (years) 31.3 ± 11.3 34.7 ± 11.6 0.23 Body mass index (kg/m 2 ) 24.5 ± 4.3 21.9 ± 2.7 <0.01 Tegner activity scale 8 (3-10) 7 (3-9) 0.01 Lysholm score 76.3 ± 13.7 75.6 ± 13.1 0.82 Time between injury and surgery (mo) 5 (1-252) 5 (1-348) 0.21 Data are given as mean ± standard deviations or medians (range) P<0.05:significant difference
Results : Anterior knee stability in BTB and HT BTB HT BTB: No significant differences during studied postoperative period. HT: Significant differences between every time points.
Anterior translation (mm) (side-to-side difference) Results : Comparison between BTB and HT in Anterior knee stability * Repaeted two-way ANOVA: p<0.01 Bonferroni correction *P<0.05: significant difference HT showed significant laxity than BTB at 2 years
Results : Lysholm score, KOOS Lysholm score BTB 1 year 2 years HT 1 year 2 years 97.8 ± 3.4 97.6 ± 4.0 97.4 ± 4.4 96.6 ± 4.9 KOOS BTB 1 year 2 years HT 1 year 2 years Symptom 88.3 ± 9.5 91.6 ± 9.8 Symptom 89.3 ± 8.9 88.8 ± 13.5 Pain 92.9 ± 7.7 95.1 ± 6.3 Pain 92.4 ± 7.6 92.6 ± 7.0 ADL 96.9 ± 5.1 97.7 ± 4.8 ADL 96.2 ± 5.2 96.2 ± 6.2 Sports 83.7 ± 14.6 88.3 ± 16.3 Sports 81.7 ± 16.8 86.8 ± 14.0 QOL 80.6 ± 14.7 82.7 ± 16.8 QOL 78.7 ± 14.3 82.1 ± 16.7 No significant differences between 1 year and 2 years in either BTB or HT No significant differences between BTB and HT
Discussion Chronological changes in anterior stability were observed in HT, but not in BTB. Graft maturity or Graft-tunnel integration? Histological maturation in HT graft occurred over 18-months. Sanchez et al. Arthroscopy 2010 9 Graft strength? BTB graft was superior to HT graft in biomechanical study. Tunnel widening? Femoral tunnel widening in HT was greater than that in BTB. Herbort et al. Arthroscopy 2013 10 Taketomi et al. Arthroscopy 2014 8 Various factors might influence the differences between BTB and HT.
Conclusions 1) No chronological changes in anterior stability were observed from at 6 months to at 2 years after ACLR using BTB, while anterior laxity developed over the same period after ACLR using HT. 2) BTB provided greater anterior stability than HT at 2 years after ACLR. Limitations Graft selection depended on patients and surgeons preferences Patient backgrounds were different between two groups Limited follow-up period Small sample size Retrospective study Without evaluation of tunnel position Without evaluation of concomitant meniscal injury
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