BACKGROUND Calcific deposits (CaDs) may be related to chronic postoperative pain and may affect function after patellar tendon surgery. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional. HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that patients with CaDs (+CaDs) would rate lower than those without (-CaDs) on measures of knee function and quality of life. METHODS Patients completed the Tegner Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale (Lyshol...

Methods: Data involving patients diagnosed with an ACL tear and eligible for surgery were recorded. Isokinetic muscle strength, functional muscle performance, and anterior-posterior translation of the knee joint were documented preoperatively and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postoperatively. Patients completed the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS), Lysholm, and Tegner rating scal...

E. De Vita, D. L. Thomas, M. Günther, and X. Golay Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom, Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, Fraunhofer MEVIS-Institute for Medical...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has been one of the most commonly performed procedures throughout the world. Unsatisfactory outcome with conventional ACL reconstruction has been attributed to nonanatomic graft placement. Researchers have advised placing the graft in the native footprint of ACL to avoid nonanatomic graft placement. The goal of this study was to analyze...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to analyze the clinical results of meniscal tears repaired with an all-inside suture with special attention to the results in stable versus anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-deficient knees. METHODS We studied 45 meniscal tears (32 medial, 13 lateral) repaired in 43 patients using a single all-inside suture system. The patients were divided in two grou...

BACKGROUND It was suggested that the direction of incision for medial hamstring tendons harvesting influences the incidence of injury to the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve (IPBSN), a common complication following arthroscopically-assisted anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). OBJECTIVES The main purpose of current study was to compare the incidence of IPBSN injury bet...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiological results of 2 different tibial fixations performed using bioabsorbable screws with added hydroxyapatite (HA) and pure poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) screws in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. METHODS A total of 394 patients who underwent arthroscopic ACL reconstruction between March 2009 and June 2012 ...

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common degenerative joint disease and immune system dysregulation has been implicated in its pathogenesis. The effect of arthroscopic knee surgery, an important method for KOA diagnosis and treatment, on the expression of immune regulators remains poorly understood. We aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of such surgery and its impact on IL-1β, CXCL13, and ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to consider the use of a meniscal repair in patients in order to close the horizontal cleavage extending up to the avascular zone. The hypothesis was to examine the clinical and arthroscopic outcomes following meniscal repair of degenerative horizontal cleavage tears with new-generation all-inside suture materials using the overlock method. METHODS We retrospective...

PURPOSE Infection after arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is reported to be rare but can cause significant morbidity. The purpose of this study was to test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in infection rates between techniques and no difference in outcome of different techniques after treatment of this complication. METHODS From a consecutive case ser...