Current trends in the diagnosis and management of syndesmotic injury

Vopat, Matthew L.; Vopat, Bryan G.; Lubberts, Bart; DiGiovanni, Christopher W.

doi:10.1007/s12178-017-9389-4

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“…If the detailed mechanism of Logsplitter injury is carefully examined, we will find out that the ankle joint surface and cartilage is easily involved during the high-energy axial violence striking, leading to the articular cartilage injury or collapse fracture. AO believes that all unstable intraarticular fractures require operation to ensure anatomical reduction as it is closely related to therapeutic effect and prognosis [9]. It has been proved that the instability of the ankle joint will give rise to the articular stress changes, thus accelerating the degeneration of the cartilage, which is considered the main pathological factor for long-term traumatic osteoarthritis [10].…”

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The Assessment of the Reduction Algorithm in the Treatment for “Logsplitter” Injury

Shou

Adhikary

Zou

et al. 2020

BioMed Research International

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As a rare and exceptional injury with significant syndesmotic disruption, the outcome of Logsplitter injury remains poor and unfavorable. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the relationship between the intraoperative reduction quality and the prognosis such as the posttraumatic osteoarthritis to help surgeons achieve better functional outcomes for this high-energy transsyndesmotic ankle fracture dislocation. From January 2015 to February 2019, 31 patients (average 37:6 ± 9:4 years with 19 male and 12 female) diagnosed with the Logsplitter injury were treated by ORIF procedure and enrolled in our study. Particularly, nine vital radiographic parameters including medial clear space, talocrural angle, superior clear space, tibiofibular clear space, tibiofibular overlap, talar tilt, coin sign, tibial medial malleolus angle, and fibular lateral malleolus angle were measured from a postoperative film (AP and mortise view). Next, we compared the clinical outcome by using range of ankle motion, AOFAS scores, Burwell-Charnley score system, and Kellergen-Lawrence criteria from the patients who obtained the intraoperative anatomical reduction with those who failed. Our results showed that AOFAS score with all the patients was 79:33 ± 5:82 at the final follow-up. 14 (45.1%) of 31 patients were observed with radiographic posttraumatic arthritis of the ankle joint with an average Kellgren-Lawrence score of 1:75 ± 1:6 at final follow-up. Most importantly, our results proved that there were significant differences between the patients eligible for anatomical reduction quality with those who failed with regard to OA rate (33.3% vs. 85.7%, P = 0:003) and AOFAS scores (75:33 ± 6:53 vs. 66:89 ± 4:28, P = 0:037) at the final followup. Furthermore, the functional outcome after the operation showed an increased range of motion of the ankle joint of the patients obtained anatomical reduction compared with those who failed (P < 0:05). In this study, the significant discrepancy with regard to the functional outcomes was observed between the acceptable and unacceptable radiographic parameters, indicating that the quality of intraoperative reduction is scientifically significant and thus can be utilized as the major factor to predict the clinical outcomes for Logsplitter injuries. Moreover, this reduction algorithm arising from our study can also be applied to other ankle fractures and dislocation involving syndesmotic complex.

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The Assessment of the Reduction Algorithm in the Treatment for “Logsplitter” Injury

Shou

Adhikary

Zou

et al. 2020

BioMed Research International

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“…En el planteamiento terapéutico de las lesiones agudas aisladas, es fundamental diferenciar las lesiones estables e inestables (12) , pero las clasificaciones publicadas hasta el momento (1,2) son insuficientes en cuanto a esta distinción. Sin embargo, con un correcto diagnóstico la función suele ser de buena a excelente (2,13) .…”

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“…En las lesiones sindesmales aisladas de tipo 1, sin diástasis tibioperonea, la mayoría de los autores están de acuerdo en que prefieren un tratamiento conservador, encontrando buenos resultados (1,2) .…”

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“…A pesar de esto, hay pacientes que solo presentan inestabilidad dinámica; estos pueden obtener buenos resultados sin tratamiento quirúrgico si se inmoviliza de manera correcta (2) .…”

Section: Lesiones Aisladasunclassified

“…Los estudios de alta calidad siguen siendo escasos y muchos de los existentes muestran resultados contradictorios. Estas discrepancias existen fundamentalmente debido a que los estudios previos presentan una inadecuada diferenciación (1) entre lesiones aisladas sin fracturas y asociadas a las mismas (2) , lesiones estables e inestables (3) , y agudas y crónicas (2) . Actualmente, la correlación entre la severidad de la lesión ligamentosa y el grado de inestabilidad permanece aún poco clara.…”

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