AOSSM 2023 Annual Meeting Recordings no CME-Peri-Operative Complications, Safety, and Early Outcomes of a Novel ACL+ALL Reconstruction Technique using Iliotibial Band Autograft vs. Patellar Tendon ACL Reconstruction: A Retrospective Pilot Study of the SATURN (Skeletally-Matu

Peri-Operative Complications, Safety, and Early Outcomes of a Novel ACL+ALL Reconstruction Technique using Iliotibial Band Autograft vs. Patellar Tendon ACL Reconstruction: A Retrospective Pilot Study of the SATURN (Skeletally-Matu

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In this video, the speaker thanks the AOSSM and co-authors for their assistance in a study focused on adolescents with open and closed growth plates. The study aims to modify the IT band technique for a mature adolescent group, due to favorable graft re-rupture rates and strong PROs. The technique involves a proximal transection of the IT band and creating a tunnel through the ALL and ACL footprints for graft placement. A retrospective study compared this technique to the gold standard BTB technique. Results showed higher quad strength deficit in the BTB group at 6 months, but no significant differences at 9 months. Complications and return to sport rates were similar between the groups, but the IT band group had a higher re-rupture rate. Early PROs were slightly favorable in the IT band group but evened out at one year. Further analysis and monitoring is required before moving forward with a planned RCT.

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Benton Heyworth, MD

Keywords

IT band technique

adolescents

growth plates

graft re-rupture rates

PROs