Epidemiology of Digital Nerve Injuries in the Stockholm County

NCT ID: NCT05269719

Last Updated: 2022-03-08

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1004 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-01

Study Completion Date

2021-06-01

Brief Summary

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This is a registry and medical record based epidemiological description of patients with digitial nerve injuies in the Stockholm County, Sweden

Detailed Description

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The primary aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of patients with surgically repaired digital nerve injuries in a Swedish population during the period 2012 to 2018. Secondary aims included a description of the patient population, surgical treatment and rehabilitation regimens following digital nerve injury. Comparisons were made between groups consisting in patients with isolated nerve injuries and those with a concomitant flexor tendon injury.

METHODS

Patients In this cohort study, all patients treated with surgical repair of a digital nerve injury at the Department of Hand Surgery at Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden were included. Inclusion period was between 2012-01-01 and 2018-12-31. Patients were identified through the Swedish national quality registry for Hand surgery (HAKIR). Inclusion criteria were the diagnostic codes (ICD-10) for a digital nerve injury in the thumb (S64.3) or finger (S64.4) in combination with the surgical code (KKÅ97) Nomesco classification of surgical procedures for nerve repair (ACB29). A total of 1,329 patients were identified. Exclusion criteria were concomitant skeletal injury, amputations, severe soft tissue injuries, or if the injury needed microvascular reconstruction. Patients reciding outside the Stockholm region and children below 18 years of age were also excluded. A total of 1,004 patients were included for the final analysis. The study population was thereafter divided into two groups: patients with an isolated digital nerve injury and patients with a ditial nerve injry with a concomitant tendon injury. All clinical data was collected through search of medical records.

Conditions

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Digital Nerve Injury

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Digital nerve injury, surgical treatment, isolated injury

Patient over the age of 18 with an isolated injury to a digital nerve.

Suture of digital nerve

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

The digital nerves were sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon and the standard procedure was three epineural sutures 8.0 or 9.0 nylon under loop magnification. Concomitant tendon injuries were also sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon, most commonly with two loop sutures (four strand core) and a peritendinous PDS suture.

Digital nerve injury, surgical treatment, concomittant flexor tendon injury

Patient over the age of 18 with an injury to a digital nerve and a concomittant flexor tendon injury.

Suture of digital nerve

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

The digital nerves were sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon and the standard procedure was three epineural sutures 8.0 or 9.0 nylon under loop magnification. Concomitant tendon injuries were also sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon, most commonly with two loop sutures (four strand core) and a peritendinous PDS suture.

Interventions

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Suture of digital nerve

The digital nerves were sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon and the standard procedure was three epineural sutures 8.0 or 9.0 nylon under loop magnification. Concomitant tendon injuries were also sutured according to the discretion of the treating surgeon, most commonly with two loop sutures (four strand core) and a peritendinous PDS suture.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* diagnostic codes (ICD-10) for a digital nerve injury in the thumb (S64.3) or finger (S64.4) in combination with the surgical code (KKÅ97) Nomesco classification of surgical procedures for nerve repair (ACB29).

Exclusion Criteria

* concomitant skeletal injury
* amputations
* severe soft tissue injuries
* injury needed microvascular reconstruction.
* Patients reciding outside the Stockholm region and
* patient age below 18 years of age
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Region Stockholm

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Karolinska Institutet

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Cecilia Mellstrand Navarro

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Marianne Arner, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Karolinska Institutet

Locations

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Karolinska Institutet Södersjukhuset, Department of clinical research and education

Stockholm, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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Digital nerve injury, epi

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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