Surgical Outcome of 2-Stage Management of Multiple Knee Ligament Injuries After Knee Dislocation

Evaluation of reconstructive surgery using artificial ligaments in 71 acute knee dislocations

“…The mean Lysholm score was 78.5. It is within range of those reported in the literature, which varies from 74.7 to 91 for acute reconstruction studies [8, 10-13, 15, 17, 18], from 75 to 87.6 for chronic reconstruction studies [7,10,13,17] and between 83 and 91.2 for a mixed cohort of acute and chronic reconstructions [8,9]. To our knowledge, the IKDC 2000 score was only used in a single study on knee dislocations by Engebretsen et al [8] and our score of 67.9 (SD ± 19.9) was very similar to theirs of 64 (SD ± 20).…”

“…The introduction of surgical treatment was later shown to be more effective than conservative treatment [2,3]. It began with the primary repair of the injured ligaments [4][5][6], then evolved into the era of reconstruction [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Surgical reconstruction is now the standard of care for most patients, although good results were recently achieved with repair [4].…”

Lateral Knee Pain

“…Surgical treatment is widely performed on grade III injuries since there is a rotational instability arising from concurrent injuries of other structures of posterolateral corner. In order to avoid patients to develop instability in the long term, brace use and physiotherapy can be continued as long as 3 months (Bin and Nam 2007;Wahl and Nicandri 2008).…”

A novel technique for combined medial collateral ligament and posterior oblique ligament reconstruction: technical note

“…However, studies have shown that reconstruction can achieve better clinical results compared to simple repairing or retensioning [3][4][5].…”