Arthroscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair Versus Reconstruction for Acute Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Surgical Trial

  • STATUS
    Recruiting
  • End date
    Dec 27, 2025
  • participants needed
    330
  • sponsor
    Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Updated on 27 October 2022
anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
imaging procedures
acl injuries
ligament tears

Summary

Background: Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction is so far the gold standard for the treatment of ACL ruptures, but this technique still suffers from problems of tendon-bone healing, bone tunnel enlargement, bone resorption, a low rate of return to motion,etc. In recent years, due to the innovation of medical materials and surgical techniques, anterior cruciate ligament repair technology has returned to the field of vision of clinical doctors. This technique has the advantages of preserving the natural ligaments and their proprioceptive sensation, avoiding the bone injury of the tunnel and the complications of the donor site. However, there is still a lack of high-quality clinical randomized controlled trails to provide evidence of the effect of arthroscopic ACL repair.

Hypothesis: Arthroscopic ACL repair is comparable to ACL reconstruction in patients with ACL tears (Sherman grades I and II).

Study Design: This study was a prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, parallel-controlled, non-inferiority trial design. A total of 330 patients with ACL tears were randomly divided into 2 groups, and were randomly assigned to the experimental group (arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament repair) and the control group (arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction) according to 1:1. Follow-up knee function and other scores were performed at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years after surgery, and the total study time is expected to be 3 years.

Details
Condition Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
Treatment ACL Reconstruction, ACL Repair
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT05584020
SponsorSecond Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Last Modified on27 October 2022

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Inclusion Criteria

Patients with anterior cruciate ligament tear clearly identified by imaging or intraoperative microscope, Sherman grade I, II; planned surgery within 3 weeks after injury
Basic reading and writing skills, and barrier-free communication
A smartphone, can use WeChat or be able to learn
Patients give informed consent, and sign the informed consent form, and the process must meet the requirements of GCP

Exclusion Criteria

Combined with other knee joint injuries (posterior cruciate ligament injury, patellar dislocation, osteoarthritis, etc.)
Suffering from systemic immune diseases
Existing other knee joint diseases or inflammatory diseases, including osteoarthritis, cervical spine disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica, etc
Patients who have received local hormone injection within 3 months
Those who have participated in clinical trials or are undergoing other clinical trials within 3 months before screening
Those who have serious primary cardiovascular disease, lung disease, endocrine and metabolic disease or serious diseases that affect their survival, such as tumor or AIDS, the researchers believe that they are not suitable for selection
Patients with severe liver disease, kidney disease, and hematological disease, such as renal function exceeding the upper limit of the normal value, and liver function exceeding 2 times the upper limit of the normal value
Suffering from viral hepatitis, infectious diseases, severe abnormal blood coagulation mechanism and other Diseases that the researchers consider inappropriate for surgery
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or who plan to become pregnant during the follow-up period, those who have a positive urine human chorionic gonadotropin test result before sampling; menstruating women should wait until the end of menstruation before surgery
Severe neurological and mental disorders Disease patients
Suspected or actual history of alcohol and drug abuse
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