Purpose: To evaluate the functional outcomes after using peroneus longus (PL) tendon autograft as meniscal transplantation in patients with knee joint line pain exaggerated with weight bearing following prior total or subtotal meniscectomy.
This research design is a single center prospective study carried out at a tertiary trauma center hospital between May 2022 and December 2022. This research had ethical Committee Approval which was granted by the Ethics Committee of Cairo University (Institutional Review Board (IRB) number N 207-2024). All patients signed an informed consent before joining this study. This study included 25 patients, with previous history of subtotal or total meniscectomy medially or laterally, who underwent meniscus transplantation using PL tendon autograft.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
25
arthroscopic meniscus reconstruction using a tendon autograft
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Giza, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Lysholm knee score
functional knee score, minimum is zero, maximum value is 100, a higher score means a better outcome
Time frame: baseline, 2 years postoperative
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis and Outcome (KOOS) score
osteoarthritis knee score, minimum is zero, maximum is 100, higher score means a better outcome
Time frame: baseline, and 2 years postoperative
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