Multiligament knee reconstruction with suture tape yielded acceptable results at 2 years
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Key takeaways:
- Multiligament knee reconstruction with suture tape augmentation yielded acceptable outcomes at 2 years.
- Patients underwent reconstruction of the ACL, PCL, medial collateral and lateral collateral ligaments.
Patients who underwent multiligament knee reconstruction with suture tape augmentation had acceptable clinical and patient-reported outcomes at 2-year follow-up, according to published results.
Researchers performed a retrospective chart review of 27 patients (mean age, 38.52 years) who underwent multiligament knee reconstruction of the ACL, PCL, medial collateral ligament and lateral collateral ligament with suture tape augmentation (Internal Brace, Arthrex Inc.).
Researchers collected Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) scores, multiligament quality of life scores (QoL) and Lysholm knee scores at 2 years postoperatively.
At 2 years, researchers found mean PROMIS scores were within normal limits. Mean PROMIS pain score was 49.93; mean PROMIS physical function score was 49.56; and mean PROMIS mobility score was 47.56.
In addition, they found mean multiligament QoL physical impairment score was 33.96; mean multiligament QoL emotional impairment score was 36.55; mean multiligament QoL activity limitation score was 28; and mean multiligament QoL societal involvement score was 30.09. Mean Lysholm knee score was 67.93, according to the study.
“On the basis of these criteria, the average patient achieved an acceptable clinical outcome, demonstrating that [multiligament knee reconstruction] MLKR with suture augmentation is a safe and efficacious surgical technique for the treatment of [multiligament knee injury] MLKI,” the researchers wrote in the study.
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