The Latest on Suture Repair of Certain ACL Tears
Exciting topic, but we don't share the authors' enthusiasm for the novel approach
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Editor’s Note: Sometimes at CORRelations, we’ll cover an article we think is likely to cross your desk, but is one whose message we have reservations about. Here’s one. — SSL
What’s the Claim?
A prospective, nonrandomized trial compared patients who underwent suture-augmented ACL repair with conventional ACL reconstruction. At 2 years, there were no between-group differences in any outcome score (KOOS, Tegner, or WOMAC) nor in KT-1000 testing results. The suture-repair group had better outcomes scores at 3 and 6 months, suggesting an easier recovery, but the differences did not persist beyond that point.
- 10% of the patients in the suture-repair group re-ruptured compared with none in the reconstruction group
- This was a no-difference statistical finding, which is an important issue
