Anterior and posterior cruciate ligament rupture after thermal treatment

Perry, John J.; Higgins, Laurence D.

doi:10.1053/jars.2000.17981

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“…Although thermal shrinkage of a lax ACL is effective in shortening the ligament in the short term, longer term follow-up suggests an extremely high failure rate [16,33,37,38].…”

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Augmentation technique with semitendinosus and gracilis tendons in chronic partial lesions of the ACL: clinical and arthrometric analysis

Buda

Ferruzzi

Vannini

et al. 2006

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

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Most of the techniques described in the literature for the repair of chronic partial ACL tears, don't spare the intact portion of the ligament. The aim of this study was to perform a prospective analysis of the results of augmentation surgery using gracilis and semitendinosus tendons to treat partial sub-acute lesions of the ACL. This technique involves an "over the top" femoral passage, which enables salvage and strengthening of the intact portion of the ACL. The study included 47 patients treated consecutively at our institute from 1993 to 1998, with a mean injury-surgery interval of 18 weeks (range 12-36). The patients were followed up by clinical and instrumental assessment criteria at 3 months, 1 and 5 years after surgery. Clinical assessment was performed using the IKDC form. Subjective and functional parameters were assessed by the Tegner activity scale. Instrumental evaluation was done using the KT-2000 instrument: the 30-pound passive test and the manual maximum displacement test were performed. We obtained good or excellent results in 95.7% of cases. No recurrences in ligamentous laxity were observed. We believe that the described technique has the advantage of being compatible with ACL anatomy, and enables very rapid functional recovery.

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“…Although thermal shrinkage of a lax ACL is effective in shortening the ligament in the short term, longer term follow-up suggests an extremely high failure rate [16,33,37,38].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Augmentation technique with semitendinosus and gracilis tendons in chronic partial lesions of the ACL: clinical and arthrometric analysis

Buda

Ferruzzi

Vannini

et al. 2006

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

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“…Cette technique consiste à appliquer une sonde thermique sur le ligament afin d'obtenir, par brûlure, une rétraction cicatricielle. À court terme, les résultats sont spectaculaires mais la fréquente récidive de la laxité et des cas de rupture ligamentaire [18,19] ont amené certains [17] à abandonner cette technique. D'autres [20] ont proposé d'ajuster les indications de cette technique aux tendons les mieux vascularisés, d'adopter un protocole de rééducation très prudent et se sont interrogés sur les paramètres physiques optimum de la sonde thermique employée.…”

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Retente du ligament croisé antérieur : une technique originale sous contrôle arthroscopique

Charrois¹,

Cheyrou

Remi

et al. 2008

Revue de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Réparatrice de l'Appareil Mo

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“…16 Failure of isolated heat shrinkage has also recently been reported for the PCL. 14 A number of animal studies have been performed suggesting poor results with thermal shrinkage of the ACL.…”

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Long-term Failure of Thermal Shrinkage for Laxity of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Halbrecht¹

2005

Am J Sports Med

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Anterior and posterior cruciate ligament rupture after thermal treatment

Cited by 46 publications

References 20 publications

Augmentation technique with semitendinosus and gracilis tendons in chronic partial lesions of the ACL: clinical and arthrometric analysis

Augmentation technique with semitendinosus and gracilis tendons in chronic partial lesions of the ACL: clinical and arthrometric analysis

Retente du ligament croisé antérieur : une technique originale sous contrôle arthroscopique

Long-term Failure of Thermal Shrinkage for Laxity of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

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