Comparison of Puddu osteotomy with or without autologous bone grafting: a prospective clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the hypothesis that autologous iliac bone grafts do not enhance clinical results and do not decrease complication rates in patients undergoing medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy.

Methods

Forty patients allocated in a randomized, two-armed, double-blinded clinical trial were evaluated between 2007 and 2010. One group received bone graft, and the other group was left without filling the osteotomy defect. The primary outcome was the Knee Society Score. Radiographic measurement of the frontal anatomical femoral-tibial angle and the progression of osteoarthritis according to the modified Ahlback classification were used as secondary outcomes.

Results

There was no difference in KSS scale between the graft group (64.4 ± 21.8) and the graftless grou

SUBMITTER: Passarelli MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643891 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature