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- Title
Repair of Acute Grade 3 Combined Posterolateral Corner Avulsion Injuries Using an Enhanced Fixation Technique.
- Authors
Moran, Jay; Kahan, Joseph B.; Schneble, Christopher A.; McLaughlin, William M.; Green, Joshua S.; Gillinov, Stephen M.; Cheng, Ryan; Patel, Rohan R.; Jimenez, Andrew E.; LaPrade, Robert F.; Schenck Jr, Robert C.; Medvecky, Michael J.
- Abstract
Background: Previous studies have suggested that surgical repair of the posterolateral corner (PLC) may be inferior to reconstruction. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that acute repair (<3 weeks) of avulsion-type PLC multiligament knee injuries with no midsubstance injury would lead to lower failure rates than previously reported for PLC repair. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: A total of 28 patients with multiligament knee injuries who underwent acute repair between January 2007 and June 2018 of a PLC avulsion injury with no evidence of midsubstance tearing were included. All PLC avulsion injuries were treated using a transosseous Krackow suture pull-through technique without graft augmentation. Outcome metrics included lateral joint-space widening with varus stress, patient-reported clinical varus instability, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and any subsequent revision or salvage procedure. Results: The mean time from injury to repair was 8.1 ± 5 days. At a mean follow-up of 2 years (range, 3-90 months), clinical varus stress examination at 30° demonstrated a significant reduction in lateral compartment opening, from 9 ± 3 mm preoperatively to 0 ± 3 mm (P <.0001). The failure rate was calculated to be 10.7% (3/28), which was significantly lower than the failure rate from a 2016 systematic review (38%, 17/45; P =.015). Of the 28 patients, 21 (75%) had PROM scores. Patients who underwent staged bi-cruciate reconstructions (n = 5) had significantly higher subjective International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) (87.2 vs 65.5; P =.014) and Lysholm (90.5 vs 75.2; P =.029) scores compared to patients with untreated bi-cruciate injuries (n = 9). Patients with peroneal nerve injury (n = 4) had significantly lower IKDC (58.2 vs 80.8; P =.0045) and Tegner (3.2 vs 5.4; P =.047) scores than those without peroneal nerve injury (n = 17). The mean IKDC and Lysholm scores at final follow-up were 73.4 ± 24.0 and 80.8 ± 23.1 at 7.1 years (range, 2.3-10.6 years) of follow-up. Conclusion: Repair of acute grade 3 combined PLC avulsion injuries using a transosseous Krackow suture pull-through technique demonstrated a failure rate of 10.7%. Patients who underwent a staged cruciate reconstruction(s) had higher subjective outcome scores than those who had cruciate injuries left untreated. Peroneal nerve injury was associated with lower outcome scores.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; SUTURING; POSTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries; PERONEAL nerve; PLASTIC surgery; SURGERY; PATIENTS; HEALTH outcome assessment; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; FISHER exact test; TREATMENT effectiveness; TREATMENT failure; T-test (Statistics); ANTERIOR cruciate ligament injuries; CASE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; DATA analysis software; KNEE injuries; LONGITUDINAL method; EVALUATION
- Publication
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2325-9671
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/23259671221131817