Sandwich-Style Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Clinical Outcome of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With and Without Remnant Preservation

“…At final follow-up, the ranges of mean postoperative side-to-side differences were 2.2 to 5 mm in patients who underwent remnant-preserving PCLR and 4.7 to 6 mm in patients who underwent standard PCLR. In the long-term follow-up study, the mean side-to-side difference at final follow-up was 16 2004 Case series IV Ahn et al 15 2005 Case-control series III Wu et al 17 2007 Case series IV Jackson et al 18 2008 Case series IV Zhao et al 19 2008 Case series IV Chen and Gao 6 2009 Case series IV Hermans et al 5 2009 Case series IV Yoon et al 13 2011 Randomized controlled study II Lahner et al 20 2012 Case series IV Yang et al 21 2012…”

“…Eight studies reported the outcomes of patients who underwent PCLR with remnant preservation. 5,9,13,15,19,[20][21][22] Among them, 1 study reported the outcomes of remnant-preserving PCLR with a minimum 10-year follow-up. Overall, Standard PCLR.…”

“…Critical application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria to those articles yielded 11 studies (Fig 1). 5,6,13,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] The features of each of the included studies are listed in Table 4. Interestingly, there were no studies that had directly compared clinical outcomes after remnant-preserving PCLR with those after standard PCLR, and there were 2 studies with long-term follow-up.…”

Nonoperative Treatment and Natural History of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

“…One of the main complications with PCL reconstruction for knee dislocations is knee ROM problems after surgery, with the rate of ROM deficits being reported to be from 7 to 30 % [33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Knee ROM loss has been found to be related to the presence of OA after ACL reconstruction [40,41] and we would expect that ROM deficits after PCL reconstruction would also be related to development of OA.…”

Serial magnetic resonance imaging study of posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction or augmentation using hamstring tendons

“…Recently, several augmentation techniques for PCL injury have been reported [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Six clinical reports have concluded good results for PCL reconstruction with preservation of the remnant [17,18,[20][21][22][23].…”