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      Estudo biomecânico da fixação transcortical ou transesponjosa do enxerto de tendão patelar com pinos bioabsorvíveis na reconstrução do LCA em ovinos Translated title: Biomechanical study of transcortical or transtrabecular bone fixation of patellar tendon graft with bioabsorbable pins in ACL reconstruction in sheep

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          OBJETIVO: Determinar a resistência inicial de fixação do sistema RigidFix® e comparar com o método tradicional de fixação que utiliza parafusos de interferência metálicos. Avaliar a resistência da fixação com o sistema RigidFix® ao se modificar o posicionamento rotacional do bloco ósseo no interior do túnel femoral. MÉTODOS: 40 espécimes de joelhos (soldras) de ovinos, foram submetidos à reconstrução do ligamento cruzado anterior (LCA)utilizando enxerto osso-tendão-osso. Em 20 espécimes utilizou-se o método RigidFix®, este grupo foi subdividido em dois, 10 joelhos foram utilizados para fixação através da esponjosa e 10 para fixação cruzando a tábua óssea cortical. Nos 20 espécimes restantes fixou-se o enxerto com parafusos de interferência metálico de 9mm. RESULTADOS: A comparação do método RigidFix® com o método de fixação com parafuso de interferência metálico não mostrou diferenças estatisticamente significativas ao se considerar carga máxima e rigidez, também não houve diferenças estatisticamente significativas ao se modificar o posicionamento rotacional do bloco ósseo no interior do túnel femoral. Para estas avaliações considerou-se o p < 0,017. CONCLUSÃO: A fixação do enxerto osso-tendão-osso com dois pinos bioabsorvíveis, independente do posicionamento rotacional no túnel femoral, permite uma fixação comparável em termos de resistência inicial ao parafuso de interferência metálico neste modelo experimental.

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          OBJECTIVE: to determine the initial resistance of fixation using the Rigid Fix® system, and compare it with traditional fixation methods using metal interference screws; and to evaluate the resistance of the fixation with the rigid fix system when the rotational position of the bone block is altered in the interior of the femoral tunnel. METHODS: forty ovine knee specimens (stifle joints) were submitted to anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL) using a bone-tendon-bone graft. In twenty specimens, the RigidFix® method was used; this group was subdivided into two groups: ten knees used for fixation with trabecular bone screw, and ten for fixation passing through the layer of cortical bone. In the twenty remaining specimens, the graft was fixed with 9mm metal interference screws. RESULTS: comparison of the Rigidfix® method with the metal interference screw fixation method did not show any statistically significant differences in terms of maximum load and rigidity; also, there were no statistically significant differences when the rotational position of the bone block was altered inside the femoral tunnel. For these evaluations, a level of significance of p < 0.017 was considered. CONCLUSION: fixation of the bone-tendon-bone graft with 2 bioabsorbable pines, regardless of the rotational position inside the femoral tunnel, gave a comparable fixation in terms of initial resistance to the metal interference screw, in this experimental model.

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          Strength of the quadriceps femoris muscle and functional recovery after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. A prospective, randomized clinical trial of electrical stimulation.

          Immediately after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, 110 patients were randomly assigned to treatment with high-intensity neuromuscular electrical stimulation (thirty-one patients), high-level volitional exercise (thirty-four patients), low-intensity neuromuscular electrical stimulation (twenty-five patients), or combined high and low-intensity neuromuscular electrical stimulation (twenty patients). All treatment was performed isometrically with the knee in 65 degrees of flexion. All of the patients participated in an intensive program of closed-kinetic-chain exercise. After four weeks of treatment, the strength of the quadriceps femoris muscle and the kinematics of the knee during stance phase were measured. Quadriceps strength averaged 70 per cent or more of the strength on the uninvolved side in the two groups that were treated with high-intensity electrical stimulation (either alone or combined with low-intensity electrical stimulation), 57 per cent in the group that was treated with high-level volitional exercise, and 51 per cent in the group that was treated with low-intensity electrical stimulation. The kinematics of the knee joint were directly and significantly (p < 0.05) correlated with the strength of the quadriceps. There was a clinically and statistically significant (p < 0.05) difference in the recovery of the quadriceps and the gait parameters according to the type of operation that had been performed: the patients who had had reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament with use of an autologous patellar-ligament graft did poorly compared with the other patients.
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            Anterior cruciate ligament replacement using patellar tendon. An evaluation of graft revascularization in the dog.

            We investigated the revascularization pattern of patellar tendon grafts used to replace the anterior cruciate ligament in thirty-six dogs by histological and tissue-clearing (Spalteholz) techniques. Initially the grafts were avascular, but by six weeks they were completely ensheathed in a vascular synovial envelope. The soft tissues of the infrapatellar fat pad, the tibial remnant of the anterior cruciate ligament, and the posterior synovial tissues contributed to this synovial vasculature. Intrinsic revascularization of the patellar tendon graft progressed from the proximal and distal portions of the graft centrally and was complete by twenty weeks. The tibial attachment of the patellar tendon graft did not contribute any vessels to the revascularization process. At one year, the vascular and histological appearance of the patellar tendon graft resembled that of a normal anterior cruciate ligament. The absence of perfused vessels within the patellar tendon graft immediately after transplantation within the knee joint and the failure of the osseous insertion of the graft to contribute vessels to the revascularization process suggest that although it is left attached at the tibia, the patellar tendon graft is essentially an avascular free graft at transplantation. The contribution of the soft tissues of the knee to the revascularization process of the graft suggests preservation and utilization of the infrapatellar fat pad and synovial tissue to optimize the graft's revascularization and ultimate viability.
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              Biomechanical analysis of human ligament grafts used in knee-ligament repairs and reconstructions.

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                Journal
                rbort
                Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia
                Rev. bras. ortop.
                Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0102-3616
                1982-4378
                February 2012
                : 47
                : 1
                : 43-49
                Affiliations
                [02] Curitiba PR orgnameUniversidade Federal Tecnológica do Paraná orgdiv1Departamento Acadêmico de Mecânica Brasil
                [01] Curitiba PR orgnameUFPR Brasil
                Article
                S0102-36162012000100006 S0102-3616(12)04700106
                10.1590/S0102-36162012000100006
                87e4e8a2-20c5-4363-8ae2-c9f1dd96f829

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                : 25 October 2011
                : 24 November 2010
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                Anterior Cruciate Ligament,Ovinos,Joelho,Enxerto Osso-Tendão Patelar-Osso,Ligamento Cruzado Anterior,Knee; Sheep,Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Graft

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