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No return to OR found 90 days after meniscal allograft transplantation
CHICAGO — No return to the operating room was found at 90 days following meniscal allograft transplantation, according to a presenter at the International Cartilage Repair Society Annual Meeting.
“The key take-home point to our study is that following meniscal allograft transplantation using our national assessment we had a 90-day return to OR rate of zero,” Frank McCormick, MD, said, here. “However, one in five patients required some kind of concomitant surgery within the 2-year period.”
Frank McCormick
Performing a database search, McCormick and colleagues conducted a retrospective review of 556,521 patients found to have meniscal pathology, with 291 patients undergoing meniscal allograft transplantation between 2007 and 2011. Overall, 21.6% of patients who underwent meniscal allograft transplantation were between the ages of 15 years and 19 years and 18.2% were between the ages of 20 years and 24 years.
At 90 days postoperatively, McCormick noted a 0% incidence of postoperative return to OR rate.
“There is essentially no return to the OR at a 90-day period,” McCormick said. “After 1 year, we saw an increase, but much of that was undergoing chondroplasties and meniscectomies.”
One year and 2 years after surgery, he said the rate of revision meniscal allograft transplantation was 4.5%. The rate of chondroplasty was 4.1% at 1 year and 5.5% at 2 years and the rate of arthroscopic meniscectomy was 5.5% at 1 year and 7.9% at 2 years, according to study results. - by Casey Tingle
Reference:
Frank RM, et al. Return to OR rates following meniscal allograft transplantation: A retrospective analysis of a US commercial insurance database. Presented at: International Cartilage Repair Society Annual Meeting. May 8-11, 2015; Chicago.
Disclosure: McCormick reports he is a paid presenter or speaker for Genzyme and receives research support from Zimmer.