Augmented Compared with Nonaugmented Surgical Repair After Total Achilles Rupture: Results of a Prospective Randomized Trial with Thirteen or More Years of Follow-up

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume
Juuso HeikkinenJ Leppilahti

Abstract

This prospective randomized trial with a mean fourteen-year follow-up compared simple end-to-end repair with fascial flap-augmented repair for acute Achilles tendon ruptures. From 1998 to 2001, sixty patients with acute Achilles tendon rupture were randomized to receive simple end-to-end repair or augmented repair; both groups were treated with postoperative bracing allowing free active plantar flexion. After a follow-up of thirteen years or more, fifty-five patients (twenty-eight in the nonaugmented-repair group and twenty-seven in the augmented-repair group) were reexamined. Outcome measures included the Leppilahti Achilles tendon score, isokinetic plantar flexion strength (peak torque and the work-displacement deficit at 10° intervals over the ankle range of motion), tendon elongation, and the RAND 36-item health survey. After a mean of fourteen years of follow-up, the mean Leppilahti score was 87.1 points for the nonaugmented repairs and 91.5 points for the augmented repairs, with a mean difference of 4.3 points (95% confidence interval [CI], -0.1 to 8.8 points). The surgical technique did not have an impact on strength parameters, with a mean peak torque of 112.6 Nm after the nonaugmented repairs and 107.3 Nm after the aug...Continue Reading

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