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Results of arthrodiastasis in postraumatic ankle osteoarthritis in a young population: Prospective comparative study
Resultados de la artrodiastasis en la artropatía postraumática de tobillo en población joven: estudio prospectivo comparativo
M. Herrera-Péreza,b,c,
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, J.L. Pais-Britoa,b, J. de Bergua-Domingoa, M. Aciego de Mendozaa, A. Guerra-Ferraza, P. Cortés-Garcíaa,b, B. Déniz-Rodrígueza
a Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
b Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
c Unidad de Tobillo y Pie, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Introduction</span><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The ankle joint supports the greatest load per unit area in the whole organism&#44; and is the most often injured&#46; However&#44; symptomatic osteoarthritis of this joint is not as clinically prevalent compared to other joints supporting load&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;2</span></a> The true prevalence of ankle osteoarthritis is difficult to determine given its considerable clinical-radiographic variability<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1&#44;3</span></a>&#58; radiographic&#44; clinical and cadaver studies suggest that it is less common than in the knee and hip&#44; and&#44; in clinical practice&#44; symptomatic gonarthrosis is 8&#8211;9 times more common than symptomatic ankle osteoarthritis&#46; Total knee arthroplasties are approximately 24 times more common than ankle arthrodesis and arthroplasty procedures combined&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Nevertheless&#44; the late developmental stages of ankle osteoarthritis are very disabling and can cause the same effects on quality of life as severe coxarthrosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> The most common cause of ankle osteoarthritis is trauma&#44; responsible for 70&#37; of cases&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> caused by intra-articular fractures or secondary to unresolved chronic instability&#46; Tibiotalar arthrodesis is currently the surgical technique of choice&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However&#44; altered gait pattern&#44; overload of neighboring joints&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#8211;9</span></a> and the rate of pseudoarthrosis &#40;or nonunion&#41; &#40;5&#8211;35&#37;&#41; make this a less appropriate option for young and active patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#8211;14</span></a> Moreover&#44; total ankle arthroplasty offers&#44; at least theoretically&#44; certain advantages over arthrodesis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15&#44;16</span></a> Unfortunately&#44; some concerns about the wear and long-term survival of the implant have led this procedure to be carried out in very selected cases&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">17&#44;18</span></a></p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the absence of encouraging long-term results of total ankle arthroplasty procedures in young and active patients&#44; multiple techniques following the philosophy of joint preservation<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> have been described for these patients with high functional requirements who do not wish to undergo arthrodesis on their ankle&#46; Joint distraction or arthrodiastasis is one of these techniques&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Joint distraction arthroplasty or arthrodiastasis is not a new method in the treatment of ankle osteoarthritis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> Judet developed it for this joint in the 70s&#44; following the positive initial results obtained in the hip&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> The technique was revived later&#44; based on the studies by van Valburg et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21&#44;22</span></a> who obtained satisfactory&#44; medium-term results&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are many theories that explain the beneficial effect of joint distraction on the tibiotalar cartilage&#59; intraarticular pressure variations produced by cyclic partial load appear to promote reparative phenomena in the cartilage&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a> which are also favored by the tibiotalar movement allowed by articulated external fixation&#46; Furthermore&#44; it has been reported that subchondral sclerosis decreases during distraction&#44; as mechanical stress on the cartilage during load is reduced&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24&#8211;26</span></a> Our working hypothesis was to assess whether arthrodiastasis is a valid treatment alternative for posttraumatic ankle arthropathy&#44; evaluating the functional outcome and the degree of pain in 10 young patients undergoing synovectomy&#44; debridement and arthrodiastasis&#44; compared to another group of 10 patients treated only by synovectomy and debridement&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Patients and methods</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This was a prospective comparative study of 2 groups of young patients suffering posttraumatic ankle osteoarthritis who underwent surgery in the period between July 2010 and October 2012&#46; The inclusion criteria were&#58; symptomatic posttraumatic osteoarthritis in stage 2 or less according to the van Dijk classification<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#44; pain level greater than 5 on a visual analog scale &#40;VAS&#41;&#44; failure to control pain with powerful pain medication &#40;third analgesic step of the WHO&#41;&#44; signing of the corresponding informed consent form for surgery and absence of contraindications for arthrodiastasis &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The distribution of patients into each group was carried out after rejection of tibiotalar arthrodesis &#40;which was the first choice for young patients in our center&#41; and after informing patients of the therapeutic options available&#58; joint debridement<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#43;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>synovectomy plus application of an external fixator or else only debridement<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#43;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>synovectomy&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The first group&#44; or &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221;&#44; included 10 patients &#40;8 females and 2 males&#41;&#46; The mean age was 35&#46;7 years &#40;range&#58; 22&#8211;47 years&#41; and the mean follow-up period was 19&#46;6 months &#40;range&#58; 6&#8211;33 months&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The second group&#44; or &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#44; included 10 patients &#40;5 females and 5 males&#41;&#46; The mean age at the time of inclusion in the study was 36&#46;5 years &#40;range&#58; 23&#8211;47 years&#41; and the mean follow-up period was also 19&#46;6 months &#40;range&#58; 6&#8211;33 months&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#tbl0015">Tables 3 and 4</a> reflect the diagnoses&#44; previous surgeries&#44; degree of osteoarthritis and other characteristics of both groups&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0015"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0020"></elsevierMultimedia><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0085">Surgical technique</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All surgeries were performed by the same surgeon &#40;MHP&#41; in 2 different centers&#46; All operations were performed under spinal anesthesia&#44; antibiotic prophylaxis &#40;intravenous cefazolin 2<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>g&#41; and preventive lower limb ischemia&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With the patient in the supine position&#44; in the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221; we conducted the first stage on the joint through anteromedial miniarthromy &#40;7 cases&#41; or standard arthroscopic approach &#40;3 cases&#41;&#44; performing microfracture techniques on exposed cartilage areas &#40;grade IV chondropathy&#41;&#44; synovectomy&#44; anterior cheilectomy &#40;7 cases&#41; and extraction of loose bodies plus profuse joint lavage with saline solution&#46; Subsequently&#44; we applied the external fixator &#40;XCaliber&#44; Orthofix<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span>&#41; using 3 proximal and 2 distal tibial nails &#40;1 in the talus and 1 in the calcaneus&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">After successful placement of the nails we proceeded to progressive and calibrated distraction of 5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm under fluoroscopic control&#44; as reported by van Valburg et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21&#44;22</span></a> who described the surgical standard of this technique and advocated maintaining the fixator for at least 3 months &#40;according to these authors&#44; chondrocytes require 12&#8211;20 weeks discharge to be able to regenerate the cartilage matrix&#41;&#46; The articulated piece was left totally free from the beginning&#44; in order to allow tibiotalar mobility&#46; In the second group we only applied the articular procedure &#40;6 open and 4 arthroscopic synovectomies&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All patients were administered low molecular weight heparin and were discharged after 24&#8211;48<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#46; In the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221;&#44; prior to discharge we ensured that the articulated piece allowed free tibiotalar mobility&#46; The procedures associated in the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221; were&#58; Strayer procedure &#40;isolated lengthening of the gastrocnemius at the level of the myotendinous junction&#41; in 2 cases and lengthening of the Achilles tendon in 2 cases&#59; in the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221; we performed 2 Strayer procedures and 1 lengthening of the Achilles tendon&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0090">Assessment of patients</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Before surgery we recorded the result in the AOFAS scale for the ankle and pain intensity on the VAS for all patients&#46; After surgery we recorded the result in the AOFAS questionnaire at 3 and 6 months and the VAS score at 3&#44; 6 and 12 months&#46; In both groups&#44; the first cure took place after 5 days and subsequently in the corresponding health center&#44; removing the stitches at 2 weeks&#46; In the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221;&#44; we insisted on an exquisite care of the nails with diluted hydrogen peroxide as advocated by other authors&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> All arthrodiastasis patients initiated partial load with crutches &#40;20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>kg&#41; at 10 days after surgery and rehabilitation at 2 weeks&#46; Full load was allowed at 4 weeks&#44; although the use of at least 1 crutch in the contralateral side was recommended&#46; In the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#44; partial load was also started at 10 days and total load at 4 weeks after the procedure&#46; Radiographs were obtained at 6 weeks and at 3&#44; 6 and 12 months of evolution in all cases&#44; except for the last 2 &#40;intervened in October 2012&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0095">Statistical analysis</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We used the software package SPSS<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span> for Windows<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span> version 14&#46;0 &#40;SPSS Inc&#46;&#44; Chicago&#44; IL&#44; USA&#41; for the descriptive statistical study&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results of the categorical variables were expressed as frequencies and percentages&#44; while quantitative variables were expressed as means and standard deviations&#46; Comparisons of proportions were performed using the Chi-square or Fisher&#39;s exact tests&#44; as appropriate&#46; Comparisons of means between treatments for age and follow-up time were performed with Student&#39;s <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">t</span> test&#46; Verifications of normality for age&#44; follow-up time&#44; VAS scores and AOFAS scores within each group were performed using the Kolmogorov&#8211;Smirnov test&#46; Due to its lack of normality&#44; the VAS variable was transformed with logarithms&#46; Comparisons between treatments &#40;arthrodiastasis&#47;synovectomy&#41; between the study periods &#40;pretreatment&#44; 3&#44; 6 and 12 months&#41; and AOFAS scale scores &#40;pretreatment&#44; 3 and 6 months&#41; were performed using repeated measures ANOVA&#46; Comparisons of means a posteriori were performed with the Scheff&#233; test&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0100">Results</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients&#44; there were no significant differences in age&#44; gender&#44; follow-up or degree of osteoarthritis &#40;the majority of cases were van Dijk level 2&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0015">Table 3</a>&#41;&#46; Regarding the intensity of pain as measured by VAS&#44; there was a significant interaction between the type of treatment and measuring periods &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">F</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf">3&#46;54</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>19&#46;6&#59; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;001&#41;&#46; We found no difference between both types of treatment preoperatively &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>0&#46;99&#41;&#44; but we did find it at 3 months &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;001&#41;&#44; 6 months &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;005&#41; and 12 months &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;006&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; Thus&#44; the VAS result at 1 year decreased by a mean total of 2&#46;3 points in over 70&#37; of patients in the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221; compared to a mean increase of 3&#46;8 points in the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding the clinical outcomes recorded through the AOFAS scale&#44; the interaction between type of treatment and measurement periods was significant &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">F</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf">2&#46;36</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>29&#46;0&#59; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;001&#41;&#46; There was no difference between both types of treatment preoperatively &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#61;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;99&#41; or at 3 months &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;99&#41;&#44; but it was observed at 6 months &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span><span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#60;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#46;001&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We only registered 5 complications in our series&#58; 2 intolerances to nails&#44; 1 type I reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome in the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221; &#40;of these&#44; 1 case of intolerance led to removal of the nails before 3 months while the rest of patients evolved favorably&#41; and 2 partial wound dehiscences in the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#44; with no impact on the final results&#46;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221;&#44; 8 patients were clinically stabilized&#44; while the remaining 2 presented poor outcomes &#40;worse results on the AOFAS and VAS scales&#41; and required arthrodesis &#40;tibiotalar in one case and tibiotalocalcaneal in the other&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#44; 3 cases were stabilized and 7 patients evolved unfavorably&#58; 5 required tibiotalar arthrodesis&#44; 1 patient underwent implantation of an ankle prosthesis and 1 case was treated at the Pain Unit because he rejected a new surgical intervention&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0105">Discussion</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Ankle degenerative arthropathy in the young and active population represents a therapeutic challenge for orthopedic surgeons&#46; The main cause in our environment is trauma&#44; in 70&#37; of cases&#44; and from the practical point of view we wish to call attention to seemingly trivial bimalleolar fractures&#44; present in our series in 15 of the 20 cases&#46; Multiple studies have shown how minor defects in the reduction of these fractures inevitably lead to posttraumatic osteoarthritic changes&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28&#8211;30</span></a> Therefore&#44; we must be scrupulous in our treatment in order to prevent intractable&#44; degenerative sequelae&#46; But not only incorrect reduction predisposes toward osteoarthritis&#58; up to 14&#37; of ankle fractures and 25&#37; of ankle fracture-dislocations &#40;found in 6 cases in our series&#41; present posttraumatic degenerative changes in the first 2 years of follow-up despite anatomical reduction&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a> This is likely related to cartilage damage sustained at the time of injury&#46; As demonstrated by Hintermann et al&#46;&#44; as many as 79&#37; of patients with ankle fractures who underwent arthroscopy at the time of treatment suffered some kind of chondral lesion&#44; especially patients with Lauge-Hansen<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">32</span></a> pronation&#47;external rotation &#40;PER&#41; fracture patterns&#44; which were present in 4 cases in our series &#40;2 in each group&#41;&#44; all of them with poor results&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is currently controversy regarding the ideal treatment for posttraumatic ankle osteoarthritis in the young and active population&#44; due to the high functional requirements and life expectancy of this population group&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Surgical procedures which preserve the joint may be effective in patients with moderate osteoarthritis&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19&#44;20</span></a> but only arthrodesis and total ankle arthroplasty have shown acceptable results in the medium and long term&#46; Nevertheless&#44; the rates of nonunion and overload of neighboring joints in the first procedure have been widely reported&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8&#44;9&#44;15</span></a> as have loosening and other complications associated with the implantation of an arthroplasty in the second procedure&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15&#8211;18&#44;33</span></a></p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Understood as a last option before considering treatments which sacrifice the original ankle joint&#44; arthrodiastasis can represent a valid alternative in this group of patients who wish to preserve mobility&#46; The first retrospective study on ankle arthrodiastasis was published in 1995<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a>&#58; 11 patients with a mean age of 35 years who were candidates for arthrodesis and who received treatment with an Ilizarov circular external fixator with distraction of 5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm for 3 months&#46; Partial load was allowed after a few days and the fixator was articulated to allow flexion and extension from week 6&#46; At 20 months follow-up&#44; all patients presented decreased pain&#44; 5 were without pain&#44; mobility improved over 50&#37; and 3 patients even presented an increase in joint space&#46; In 2002&#44; Marijnissen et al&#46; published a prospective multicenter study of 57 patients aged under 40 years who were followed for 2&#46;8 years&#44; reporting significant improvement in the functional parameters of 38 patients&#44; although 10 were lost during follow-up&#44; 8 suffered arthrodesis and 1 required total ankle arthroplasty due to an unfavorable evolution&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a> Ploegmakers et al&#46; published their results in 27 patients with posttraumatic arthritis&#44; a mean age of 37 years and a monitoring period of 7 years&#58; 73&#37; reported significant improvement in all parameters&#44; while 6 patients suffered arthrodesis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0170"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">34</span></a> However&#44; the functional improvement of this technique has not only been demonstrated in the short term&#46; Paley and Lamm reported that 16 of 22 patients &#40;73&#37;&#41; presented a persistent improvement after 7 years of follow-up after undergoing arthrodiastasis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0175"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">35</span></a></p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding the type of external fixation&#44; it has been demonstrated that circular external fixation&#44; although technically more complex&#44; is biomechanically superior to monolateral fixation such as was used in our series&#44; as the latter applies unequal distraction on the joint and is difficult to implement correctly in the ankle axis&#46; However&#44; there are some reports with large series of patients using this type of fixation and also showing satisfactory results&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20&#44;22&#44;36</span></a></p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In 2003&#44; Marijnissen et al&#46; published a similar study to the present one&#44; although our follow-up period was longer&#44; which showed better results for arthrodiastasis plus debridement versus debridement alone&#44; with higher rates of functional improvement after 1 year&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">37</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Our results regarding pain relief in 70&#37; of cases are consistent with the literature&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21&#44;22&#44;24&#44;34&#8211;36</span></a> and we consider them the main clinical benefit of this surgical procedure&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Moreover&#44; our study clearly shows how patients who evolve favorably begin to experience functional improvement after 5&#8211;6 months of joint distraction<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a> &#40;the differences in the AOFAS scale are significant after 6 months&#41;&#46; Based on this fact&#44; we encourage our patients to wait approximately 1 year before deciding to undergo treatments which sacrifice their original joint &#40;arthrodesis or arthroplasty&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding the use of open versus arthroscopic synovectomy&#44; various authors have reported better results with the latter&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19&#44;27&#44;38</span></a> although in our study we could not find a statistically significant association in this regard&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All patients in both groups with a previous diagnosis of PER-type ankle fracture eventually presented poor results and required either arthrodesis or arthroplasty&#46; Various authors have reported a link between this fracture pattern and a higher incidence of chondral lesions&#44; which could explain the poor results obtained in these patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0155"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31&#44;32</span></a></p><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The worst results in the &#8220;arthrodiastasis group&#8221; were obtained among older patients &#40;47 and 43 years&#41; who had undergone 2 or more previous procedures&#46; Neither result was statistically significant&#46; In the &#8220;synovectomy group&#8221;&#44; 2 of the 3 patients aged over 40 years presented the worst results&#44; both with more than 2 previous operations&#44; but without statistical significance&#46; Despite not having statistical significance&#44; it seems logical that the age and number of previous surgeries could negatively influence the final result&#46;</p><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Regarding the degree of prior osteoarthritis according to the classification described by van Dijk&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a> all our negative results in both groups except for 1 were grade 2&#44; although this fact was not statistically significant&#46;</p><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">While not part of our initial objectives&#44; in 4 patients in our series we observed an objective decrease of radiographic subchondral sclerosis after the application of arthrodiastasis&#46; Furthermore&#44; in 1 case with asymmetric impingement and varus axis&#44; this disappeared in the radiographic control after removal of the fixator and remained thus throughout the entire follow-up period &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#fig0020">Figs&#46; 4&#8211;7</a>&#41;&#46; Based on the results of this study&#44; we cannot confirm that arthrodiastasis recovers the joint interline&#44; as we have only evaluated clinical and functional criteria&#44; but it seems clear that this treatment was effective in slowing the progressive radiographic deterioration of the 8 patients in our series&#44; who evolved favorably&#46; This could explain the functional results in these patients&#44; although some studies based on magnetic resonance imaging analysis have shown a recovery of the articular cartilage after the application of this technique&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0170"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">34&#44;35</span></a></p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0020"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0025"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0030"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0035"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In 2012&#44; Rodriguez et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">37</span></a> published the largest series of patients treated with ankle arthrodiastasis to date&#46; It included 82 patients intervened during the period 1998&#8211;2010&#44; with a mean age of 5&#46;6 years &#40;range&#58; 1&#8211;12 years&#41;&#44; who were evaluated before and after surgery using the Maryland Foot Score functional outcome scale&#44; which is similar to that used in our study &#40;AOFAS&#41;&#44; but takes into account other aspects&#44; such as difficulty using ordinary shoes and esthetic aspects&#46; This showed 24&#37; excellent results and 55&#37; good results&#44; that is&#44; over 70&#37; good or excellent results&#44; with 15&#37; moderate results and 6&#37; poor results&#46; Out of the entire series&#44; only 5 patients with a poor outcome required surgery during follow-up&#58; 4 required tibiotalar arthrodesis and 1 required joint replacement&#46; The most common complication was intolerance or infection in the pathway of the nails&#44; in 15&#37; of cases&#46; These results are similar to those in our series&#46; More recently&#44; Smith et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">38</span></a> analyzed the levels of evidence existing regarding ankle arthrodiastasis and found that there is not yet sufficient and adequate evidence-based literature to support or refute its use as a valid alternative to arthrodesis or arthroplasty&#46; Further and higher-quality scientific studies&#44; both prospective and comparative&#44; are required to support this technique&#46; One example would be the study we have carried out in order to validate this surgical technique which preserves the joint in young patients&#46;</p><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The main limitations of this study include lack of randomization&#44; although both groups were perfectly comparable in all parameters&#46; We also consider that it would be useful to apply a longer follow-up period &#40;at least in the medium term&#41;&#44; 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