RESEARCH ARTICLE
Possibility of Meniscal Repair for Degenerative and Horizontal Tears
Takatomo Mine1, *, Takaaki Ueda2, Koichiro Ihara1, Hiroyuki Kawamura1, Ryutaro Kuriyama1, Yasunari Tominaga1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 13
First Page: 260
Last Page: 265
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-13-260
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001913010260
Article History:
Received Date: 02/07/2019Revision Received Date: 02/12/2019
Acceptance Date: 20/12/2019
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Poor long-term clinical results have been reported following partial and total menisectomy. To preserve the meniscus, many surgeons perform meniscal repairs when possible. However, meniscal repair for degenerative tears and white-white tears is challenging.
Methods:
15 patients underwent meniscal repair for degenerative and horizontal tears. Follow-up evaluation included clinical assessment and Magnetic Resonance Imaging examination. The mean follow-up time was 11.9 months (from 8 months to 13 months).
Result:
The healing rate on clinical assessment was 86.6% 12 months after surgery. MRI showed partial healing in 12 patients, complete healing in 1 and no healing in 2 after 12 months.
Conclusion:
The findings suggest that it may be possible to repair degenerative and horizontal meniscal tears.