LIVing Donor Allograft for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Study
A Prospective Cohort Study of Skeletally Immature Patients Requiring Endoscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Using Living Donor Hamstring Allograft From a Parent
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
40 participants
Sep 15, 2021
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is a major stabiliser of the knee. ACL rupture is being increasingly identified in children and skeletally immature patients. The current advice in younger patients is usually to undergo ACL reconstruction. The choice of an ideal graft in children is difficult This study will use a technique involves the use of hamstring tendons from a living donor, where the adult (usually a parent) agrees to donate their hamstring tendons, which are dissected out of them and implanted into the child
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Interventions
The Parent donor will undergo hamstring tendon graft harvest under general anaesthesia in a routine fashion in one theatre. The Graft material will be transported thorough to the adjacent theatre, where the child will be anaesthetised and undergoing arthroscopy of their injured knee in preparation for receiving the graft. ACL reconstruction Surgery will be undertaken in the child recipient as per the Surgeons usual technique, +/- meniscus repair +/- lateral tenodesis as required.
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NCT05395767