The Risk of Secondary Knee Procedures After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction—A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study
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:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Total 146,122 | Allograft | Autograft | p-Value * | |||
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N | % | N | % | |||
Sex | Male | 94,935 | 78.4% | 21,086 | 84.40% | <0.001 |
Female | 26,213 | 21.6% | 3888 | 15.60% | ||
Age | under 20 | 15,006 | 12.4% | 3715 | 14.90% | <0.001 |
20–39 | 60,901 | 50.3% | 14,775 | 59.20% | ||
40–49 | 24,911 | 20.6% | 4430 | 17.70% | ||
50–59 | 15,786 | 13.0% | 1773 | 7.10% | ||
over 60 | 4544 | 3.8% | 284 | 1.10% | ||
Revision ACLR | 11,102 | 9.2% | 2171 | 8.7% | 0.018 |
Total | HTO After ACLR | TKA After ACLR | Meniscus After ACLR | Meniscus Repair After ACLR | Meniscus Transplantation After ACLR | ||||||||||||
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N | (%) | p-Value * | N | (%) | p-Value * | N | (%) | p-Value * | N | (%) | p-Value * | N | (%) | p-Value * | |||
Sex | Male | 116,021 | 638 | 0.5% | <0.0001 | 360 | 0.3% | <0.0001 | 11,577 | 10.0% | <0.0001 | 5958 | 5.1% | <0.0001 | 797 | 0.7% | <0.0001 |
Female | 30,101 | 435 | 1.4% | 548 | 1.8% | 3641 | 12.1% | 1211 | 4.0% | 141 | 0.5% | ||||||
Age | under 20 | 18,718 | 18 | 0.1% | <0.0001 | - | 0.0% | <0.0001 | 2225 | 11.9% | <0.0001 | 1806 | 9.6% | <0.0001 | 121 | 0.6% | <0.0001 |
20–39 | 75,676 | 300 | 0.4% | 15 | 0.0% | 7212 | 9.5% | 4130 | 5.5% | 608 | 0.8% | ||||||
40–49 | 29,341 | 379 | 1.3% | 162 | 0.6% | 3190 | 10.9% | 838 | 2.9% | 182 | 0.6% | ||||||
50–59 | 17,559 | 330 | 1.9% | 446 | 2.5% | 2190 | 12.5% | 336 | 1.9% | 26 | 0.1% | ||||||
over 60 | 4828 | 46 | 1.0% | 285 | 5.9% | 401 | 8.3% | 59 | 1.2% | 1 | 0.0% |
Risk Factors | HTO After ACLR | Menisectomy After ACLR | Meniscus Repair After ACLR | Meniscus Transplantation After ACLR | |||||||||
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HR * | 95% C.I. | HR * | 95% C.I. | HR * | 95% C.I. | HR * | 95% C.I. | ||||||
Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | ||||||
Graft | Autograft | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||||||
Allograft | 1.581 | 1.304 | 1.916 | 1.223 | 1.171 | 1.279 | 1.192 | 1.121 | 1.267 | 0.951 | 0.811 | 1.115 | |
Sex | Male | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||||||
Female | 2.081 | 1.834 | 2.361 | 1.232 | 1.185 | 1.280 | 0.927 | 0.871 | 0.987 | 0.857 | 0.715 | 1.028 | |
Age | under 20 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||||||
20–39 | 4.337 | 2.694 | 6.981 | 0.791 | 0.754 | 0.830 | 0.534 | 0.505 | 0.564 | 1.210 | 0.995 | 1.472 | |
40–49 | 11.795 | 7.351 | 18.927 | 0.838 | 0.794 | 0.884 | 0.261 | 0.241 | 0.284 | 0.919 | 0.730 | 1.157 | |
50–59 | 17.695 | 11.004 | 28.454 | 1.029 | 0.970 | 1.092 | 0.190 | 0.169 | 0.213 | 0.238 | 0.155 | 0.363 | |
over 60 | 10.802 | 6.259 | 18.644 | 0.768 | 0.690 | 0.854 | 0.143 | 0.110 | 0.185 | 0.038 | 0.005 | 0.271 |
N | Follow-Up Time (Years) | |||||
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Mean | s.d. | Q1 (p25) | Median | Q3 (p75) | ||
Total | 146,122 | 6.6 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 9.4 |
Autograft | 24,974 | 7.4 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 10.3 |
Allograft | 121,148 | 6.4 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 6.2 | 9.1 |
N | HTO | Menisectomy | Meniscus Repair | Meniscus Transplantation | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Median | Mean | s.d. | N | Median | Mean | s.d. | N | Median | Mean | s.d. | N | Median | Mean | s.d. | ||
Total | 146,122 | 1073 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.9 | 15,218 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 7169 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 938 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
Autograft | 24,974 | 119 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 4.1 | 2368 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 1255 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 192 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
Allograft | 121,148 | 954 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 3.9 | 12,850 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 5914 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 746 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
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Yoon, H.-K.; Lee, C.-M.; Oh, H.-C.; Youk, T.; Park, S.-H. The Risk of Secondary Knee Procedures After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction—A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Clin. Med. 2025, 14, 3823. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14113823
Yoon H-K, Lee C-M, Oh H-C, Youk T, Park S-H. The Risk of Secondary Knee Procedures After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction—A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2025; 14(11):3823. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14113823
Chicago/Turabian StyleYoon, Han-Kook, Chang-Min Lee, Hyun-Cheol Oh, Taemi Youk, and Sang-Hoon Park. 2025. "The Risk of Secondary Knee Procedures After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction—A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study" Journal of Clinical Medicine 14, no. 11: 3823. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14113823
APA StyleYoon, H.-K., Lee, C.-M., Oh, H.-C., Youk, T., & Park, S.-H. (2025). The Risk of Secondary Knee Procedures After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction—A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14(11), 3823. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14113823