Pediatric ACL: Understanding Treatment Options
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Official title
Pediatric ACL: Understanding Treatment Options (PLUTO)
Brief summary
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Pediatric ACL: Understanding Treatment Outcomes (PLUTO) is a multi-center, prospective cohort study. Specific aims of PLUTO are to evaluate the safety and comparative effectiveness of non-operative treatment, as well as four operative treatments including (1) transphyseal ACL reconstruction (2) partial transphyseal ACL reconstruction, (3) physeal-sparing epiphyseal ACL reconstruction using the Anderson technique, and (4) physeal-sparing ACL reconstruction using the Micheli/Kocher technique in prepubescent and pubescent skeletally immature patients.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02772770
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 765 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Non-operative treatment group will undergo standardized treatment which will include rehabilitation, bracing and certain activity restrictions Other
- Surgical technique: Transphyseal reconstruction Procedure
- Surgical technique: Partial transphyseal reconstruction Procedure
- Surgical technique: Physeal sparing reconstruction by the Anderson method Procedure
- Surgical technique: Physeal sparing reconstruction by the Micheli/Kocher method Procedure
Other · Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 5 Years to 18 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 2016 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- May 2030 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Dec 2030 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- May 13, 2025
2016 – 2030
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 10
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 10
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford University Medical Center | Palo Alto | California | 94304 | — |
| Rady Children's Hospital | San Diego | California | 92123 | — |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | Atlanta | Georgia | 30342 | — |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
| Washington University at St. Louis | St Louis | Missouri | 63130 | — |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York | New York | 10021 | — |
| Cincinnati Children's Medical Center | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45229 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Cleveland | Ohio | 44195 | — |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance | Nashville | Tennessee | 37205 | — |
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- Last update posted May 13, 2025 · Synced Oct 17, 2026
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