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Conditions
Brief summary
This is a prospective study seeking to investigate the post-operative clinical and radiographic outcomes of meniscal repair surgery in the knee in paediatric patients, with or without concomitant knee surgery if indicated. Patient outcomes will be collected over a 24 month post-operative period, and will include a range of subjective and functional outcomes, radiographic measures and patient satisfaction.
Interventions
Patients who fulfill the inclusion criteria and are undergoing orthopaedic surgery at the Perth Children's Hospital for their symptomatic knee meniscal tears (with or without concomitant pathology which will be addressed at the time of surgery if required), will be invited to participate in this study. Patients as part of this prospective review are already undergoing knee surgery to address their symptomatic meniscal tear, as per the routine clinical pathway. This study has been designed as a r
Patients who fulfill the inclusion criteria and are undergoing orthopaedic surgery at the Perth Children's Hospital for their symptomatic knee meniscal tears (with or without concomitant pathology which will be addressed at the time of surgery if required), will be invited to participate in this study. Patients as part of this prospective review are already undergoing knee surgery to address their symptomatic meniscal tear, as per the routine clinical pathway. This study has been designed as a robust pre- and post-operative clinical review of this patient cohort undergoing surgery. Patients will be reviewed over a 24-month post-operative period, and will attend for these clinical reviews specifically pre-surgery, as well as 6 weeks and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months post-surgery.
Sponsors
University of Western Australia
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
8 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients will already be undergoing surgery for their symptomatic knee meniscal tear. Therefore, outside of the routine criteria for surgery, study inclusion criteria are: 1. The individual is between the ages of 8 and 16 years. 2. The individual clinically qualifies for meniscal repair surgery based on clinical examination and MRI. 3. Multiple meniscal injuries are present. 4. The meniscal repair is combined with another knee surgery (or surgeries), such as ligament reconstruction
Exclusion criteria
Patients will already be undergoing surgery for their symptomatic knee meniscal tear. Therefore, outside of the routine criteria for surgery, study exclusion criteria are: 1. The individual (and parent) is unable or unwilling to sign the Patient Informed Consent, specific to this study, and approved by the Institutional Ethics Review Board. 2, The individual is classified as morbidly obese (>40 BMI).
Outcome results
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