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Percutaneous Achilles tendon repair with absorbable suture: Outcomes and complications
Reparación percutánea del tendón de Aquiles con sutura reabsorbible: resultados y complicaciones
D. Campillo-Recio, M. Comas-Aguilar
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, M. Ibáñez, Y. Maldonado-Sotoca, G. Albertí-Fitó
Hospital Universitari Quiron Dexeus, Barcelona, Spain
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and a descriptive analysis was carried out&#46; Continuous variables are described as mean &#40;SD&#41; and categorical data are summarized as absolute frequency and percentages&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0095">Results</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Fifty-two Achilles tendon ruptures of 52 patients were included&#46; The mean &#40;SD&#41; age was 45&#46;96 years &#40;13&#46;67&#41; and there were 48 men &#40;92&#46;3&#37;&#41; and 4 women &#40;7&#46;7&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A previous diagnosis of Achilles tendinopathy was present in 7 patients &#40;13&#46;5&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Seven patients &#40;13&#46;5&#37;&#41; referred participation in no sports or mild sports&#44; 35 patients &#40;67&#46;3&#37;&#41; in moderate sports and 10 patients &#40;19&#46;2&#37;&#41; in intensive sports&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A total of 29 patients &#40;55&#46;8&#37;&#41; referred to perform sedentary work&#44; 5 patients &#40;9&#46;6&#37;&#41; intensive physical work while 18 patients combined both sedentary and physical work&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Aetiology of the rupture was a non-sportive mechanism in 27 patients &#40;51&#46;9&#37;&#41;&#44; a sport injury in 22 cases &#40;42&#46;3&#37;&#41; and a traumatic mechanism was identified in 3 patients &#40;5&#46;8&#37;&#41;&#46; The mean time &#40;SD&#41; between injury and surgical treatment was 4&#46;11 days &#40;2&#46;18&#41; with a maximum of 7 days and a minimum of 1 day &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of VAS scoring &#40;SD&#41; at 1&#44; 3&#44; 6 and 12 months follow-up were 2&#46;63 &#40;0&#46;83&#41;&#44; 1&#46;79 &#40;1&#46;25&#41;&#44; 0&#46;69 &#40;1&#46;09&#41; and 0&#46;08 &#40;0&#46;39&#41;&#44; respectively&#46; Mean &#40;SD&#41; ATRS score was 92&#46;45 points at 6 months &#40;6&#46;27&#41; and 94&#46;04 points at 12 months follow up &#40;4&#46;59&#41;&#46; Mean &#40;SD&#41; AOFAS score was 91 points at 6 months &#40;5&#46;85&#41; and 94&#46;28 points at 12 months follow up &#40;3&#46;78&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In ultrasound study at 6-month follow-up&#44; good thickness and hypoechoic thickening without hypervascularization in the Doppler study was observed in all patients&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The mean time &#40;SD&#41; to full-weight-bearing without pain was 81&#46;25 days &#40;35&#46;14&#41;&#46; At that time&#44; basic daily activities &#40;excluding sport and work activities&#41; were restarted&#46; The mean time &#40;SD&#41; to return to work and sport activities was 111&#46;43 days &#40;36&#46;64&#41; and 142&#46;76 days &#40;49&#46;1&#41;&#44; respectively&#46; 47&#47;52 patients &#40;90&#46;4&#37;&#41; confirmed having returned to their previous level of sports activity after surgery &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There were 3 re-ruptures &#40;5&#46;77&#37;&#41; with a mean time between surgery and re-rupture of 108&#46;75 days &#40;SD 28&#46;4&#41; all of them within 4-month follow-up&#46; The mechanism of re-rupture was a non-sports rupture in all patients&#46; No rupture at the time to return to sports activity was reported&#46;</p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The 13 complications &#40;25&#37;&#41; reported include 3 re-ruptures&#44; previously described&#44; 1 superficial wound infection and 9 transitory sural nerve injuries&#46; All sural nerve injuries were transitory and had a mean &#40;SD&#41; time until their resolution of 73&#46;3 days &#40;37&#46;1&#41;&#46; The symptoms related to the sural nerve injury were resolved within 150 days in all patients &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0015">Table 3</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0100">Discussion</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The present study shows good functional outcomes for percutaneous Achilles tendon repair with absorbable suture in patients with an acute Achilles tendon rupture&#44; but not exempt of minor complications&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As for the epidemiological data&#44; the mean age is 45&#46;96 years old&#44; 92&#46;3&#37; men&#44; being most ruptures related to sport injuries &#40;42&#46;3&#37;&#41;&#44; according to the previously reported&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;10&#44;11</span></a></p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">According to the literature&#44; the Achilles tendon rupture affected the area between 2 and 8<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>cm proximal to the calcaneal insertion in all of our patients&#44; corresponding to hypovascularized zone&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a></p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We use a double Bunnell crossed type suture according to the results observed in biomechanical studies<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> and absorbable Vicryl &#35;1 suture instead of Polydioxanone&#44; Johnson &#38; Johnson&#174; &#40;PDS&#41; for many reasons&#46; First&#44; PDS is smoother&#46; It has a greater risk of cutting the tendon during knot-pulling&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0195"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> Moreover&#44; absorbable sutures are associated with a lower incidence of suture reaction and have shown no difference in regard to the functional results&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0195"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> Furthermore&#44; the Vicryl material suffers greater degradation&#44; which contributes to relief from the complications associated with sural nerve injuries when they happen&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Progressive improvement in the VAS score was achieved&#44; with a mean score of 2&#46;63 at the 1-month follow-up and 0&#46;08 at the 12-month follow-up&#46; The percentage of patients with no pain at 3&#44; 6 and 12 months was 17&#37;&#44; 69&#37; and 96&#37;&#44; respectively&#44; with the greatest improvement in the VAS score between the 3 and 6-month follow-up&#44; similar to previously reported&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0200"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> ATRS scores at 6 and 12 months were 92&#46;45 and 94&#46;04&#44; respectively with better results achieved at the 6-month follow-up comparing to previously reported&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> An explanation for the difference in functional scores at 6 months follow-up might be the mean age of our patients&#44; with only 7 &#40;13&#46;5&#37;&#41; patients older than 60 in this series&#46;</p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The 90&#37; of our patients reported having returned to their pre-injury level&#44; increasing to 98&#37; when we exclude re-rupture patients&#46; One of the 3 patients with a postoperative tendon re-rupture&#44; recovered the previous level of activity&#46;</p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the most important aspects regarding Achilles tendon rupture treatment is the re-rupture incidence&#46; In this study a re-rupture rate of 5&#46;77&#37; &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">N</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>3&#41; was observed&#44; which is similar to the previously reported &#40;2&#37;&#8211;8&#37; re-rupture rates&#41; for percutaneous Achilles tendon repair&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0210"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17</span></a> Classically&#44; the percutaneous repair re-rupture rate was seen to be lower when compared to the initial conservative treatment&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0145"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;6</span></a> The main problem associated with this classical conservative treatment was the prolonged time of immobilization&#44; which entailed important secondary muscle atrophy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0215"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a> After the early weight-bearing and controlled rehabilitation protocol&#44; the re-rupture rate with conservative treatment decreased drastically&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;19&#44;21&#8211;23</span></a> Due to the favourable results in some recent studies with conservative treatment and because of the bimodal age distribution of Achilles tendon ruptures&#44; some authors advocate for conservative treatment for young patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5&#44;21&#8211;23</span></a> This is because there is the potential for tendon healing in this younger age-range&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;2</span></a> It might be worthwhile to reserve surgical treatment for patients in the second-peak group&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5&#44;24&#44;25</span></a> For that purpose&#44; prospective studies between conservative and surgical treatment comparing the incidence between the two peaks are necessary&#46;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to empathize that in this series 1 in 4 patients &#40;25&#37;&#41; suffered some type of complication&#46; This rate is higher than those previously reported for percutaneous Achilles tendon repair&#44; which has been established between 4 and 15&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> A reason which would explain this fact is that we have observed a high rate of complications due to transitory sural nerve injuries&#8217; symptoms &#40;17&#46;3&#37;&#41;&#44; complication which&#44; if is transitory&#44; is not considered as a surgical complication in most previous studies&#46; These sural nerve injuries were completely resolved in all cases within 4 months after surgery&#46; One of the main causes of sural nerve injuries is the entrapment during the percutaneous suture&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> The use of the absorbable suture&#44; which has the same biomechanical properties as the non-absorbable suture and with fewer reported side effects&#44; could explain the disappearance of symptoms in these patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0220"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a></p><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally&#44; related to complications&#44; one case of superficial wound infection was observed and completely resolved with oral antibiotic treatment&#46;</p><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our study has some limitations&#46; First&#44; it is a prospective cohort study and there is no control group with conservative treatment&#46; Moreover&#44; despite Achilles tendon ruptures have a bimodal age distribution with different aetiologies described&#44; all patients were included in a single group due to the small number of patients over 60 years of age&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Conclusions</span><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; in our experience&#44; percutaneous Achilles tendon repair with absorbable sutures in patients with an acute Achilles tendon rupture has shown good functional results but with a high incidence of complications&#46; Although most complications were transitory sural nerve symptoms&#44; this complication would be avoided in patients treated conservatively&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5&#44;20</span></a> For this reason&#44; conservative treatment associated with an early weight-bearing rehabilitation protocol should be considered a viable option for patients with Achilles Tendon Ruptures&#44; mainly in cooperative young patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0110">Level of evidence</span><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Level of evidence II&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">Funding</span><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have not received financial funding to carry out the research and&#47;or the preparation of the article&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Conflict of interests</span><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the search&#44; authorship and&#47;or publication of this article&#46; All authors declare no conflicts of interest&#46;</p></span></span>"
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