Anterior Cruicate Ligament

PURPOSE: The German Arthroscopy Registry (DART) has been initiated in 2017 with the aim to collect real-life data of patients undergoing knee, shoulder, hip or ankle surgery. The purpose of this study was to present an overview of the current status and the collected data thus far. METHODS: Data entered between 11/2017 and 01/2022 were analyzed. The number of cases (each case is defined as a single operation with or without concomitant procedures) entered for each joint, follow-up rates and trends between different age groups (18-29 years, 30-44 years, 45-64 years,  ≥ 65 years) and across genders, and quality of life improvement (pre- vs...

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the present paper was to study isolated meniscal ramp lesions without obvious ACL rupture. Their biomechanical mechanisms were analyzed and their clinical characteristics were reviewed. The clinical effects of an all-inside horizontal mattress suture for isolated ramp lesions were evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty isolated meniscal ramp lesion patients without obvious ACL rupture from 2015 to 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative MRI showed intact ACL and signs of ramp lesions...

We previously reported that intraarticular injections of hyaluronan (HA), administered prophylactically to dogs in whom knee osteoarthritis had been induced by transection of the anterior cruicate ligament, did not significantly modify the intraarticular pathology but decreased the proteogylcan concentration of the articular cartilage by as much as 30%. Because the cartilage proteoglycan concentration is directly related to the stiffness of the tissue, these results raised the possibility that intraarticular HA therapy could exacerbate OA...

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