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| Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre | UNKNOWN |
| Jessa Ziekenhuis Hasselt | UNKNOWN |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege | OTHER |
| Clinique Saint-Luc Bouge |
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Currently, most patients with an anterior cruciate ligament injury undergo surgery. There is a general belief that surgical reconstruction is necessary to safely return to sports and to prevent early knee osteoarthritis or additional meniscus injuries. But there is insufficient scientific evidence to support this belief. Moreover, several studies show that surgical reconstruction of the cruciate ligament does not guarantee successful return to sports or the prevention of osteoarthritis and secondary meniscus injuries. Therefore, immediate surgery after an anterior cruciate ligament injury is questioned. So far, only two RCTs (KANON study and COMPARE study) have assessed this, and they could not show that immediate reconstruction is an added value (in terms of symptoms, knee function, activity level, osteoarthritis or additional meniscal injuries) compared to a conservative approach consisting of rehabilitation and late surgery for persistent knee instability.
Therefore, this additional multicenter RCT, aims to 1) verify these results and 2) to identify predictors that predict which patients in the conservative group will not require late surgery. This has not been investigated to date. It is suspected that factors such as symptoms, strength, findings on the MRI scan and psychological factors may play a role in whether or not a patient will be able to successfully rehabilitate without surgical repair.
This information is invaluable to physicians because it allows them to decide which treatment is best for the patient.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Conservative treatment | Experimental | Rehabilitation and optional delayed ACL reconstruction |
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| Immediate ACL reconstruction | Experimental | Immediate ACL reconstruction + rehabilitation |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Rehabilitation | Other | All patients complete rehabilitation under supervision of their own physiotherapist. The investigators will provide some guidelines and criteria, but it is the physiotherapist's choice how to implement these guidelines in clinical practice. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Clinical effectiveness (long-term) | Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score - Subscale Quality of Life (score between 0-100, higher scores mean better outcome) | 12 months post-injury |
| Clinical effectiveness (short-term) | Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score - Subscale Quality of Life (score between 0-100, higher scores mean better outcome) | 7 months post-injury |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Prediction analysis to identify patient-specific factors that predict whether (or not) a patient will require delayed surgery | Dependent variable = whether or not delayed surgery is performed (binary event) Independent variables (candidate predictors):
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Annemie Smeets, phd | Contact | +32 16 37 91 02 | annemie.smeets@kuleuven.be |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| UZ Leuven | Recruiting | Leuven | 3000 | Belgium |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 38238809 | Derived | Smeets A, Ghafelzadeh Ahwaz F, Bogaerts S, Berger P, Peers K. Comparison of immediate versus optional delayed surgical repair for treatment of acute anterior cruciate ligament injury through a parallel, multicentric, pragmatic randomized controlled trial - IODA trial. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2024 Jan 18;16(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s13102-024-00816-6. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D000070598 | Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries |
| ID | Term |
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| D007718 | Knee Injuries |
| D007869 | Leg Injuries |
| D014947 | Wounds and Injuries |
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| ID | Term |
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| D012046 | Rehabilitation |
| ID | Term |
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| D000359 | Aftercare |
| D003266 | Continuity of Patient Care |
| D005791 | Patient Care |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
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| University Hospital Brussel | UNKNOWN |
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| Optional delayed anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | Procedure | If a patient complains about persistent symptomatic instability of the knee or the inability to progress in rehabilitation, delayed surgery can be considered. ACL insufficiency induced instability in combination with a positive pivot shift and an additional MRI are needed to confirm the cause of instability. This surgery will not be performed within the first 12 weeks after the ACL injury. |
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| Immediate anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | Procedure | No guidelines on type of ACL reconstruction will be imposed to keep the trial pragmatic. The decision of graft type and surgery technique is a clinical decision made by the orthopaedic surgeons of the participating centra. This surgery will be performed within 12 weeks after the ACL injury. |
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| 36 months post-injury |
| D006296 |
| Health Services |
| D005159 | Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services |