Table 4.

Summary of outcomes of all-inside meniscal repairs

Authors	No. of patients	Mean age (years)	Mean FU	ACL	Zone	MM/LM	Time from injury to repair	Implant	Evaluation method	Outcome
Jones [28]	38	29.9	29.7 months	22 ACLR	R–R 77% R–W 19.4% W–W 2.8%	33 MM 6 LM	5.9 months	Meniscus Arrow	Telephone questionnaire	2 partial meniscectomy 31.6% local irritative symptoms 2 removal of fragments
Gill [29]	32		2.3 years				16 acute < 6 weeks 23 chronic > 6 weeks	Meniscus Arrow	Clinical	9.4% failure rate 3 partial meniscectomy
Lee [30]	32		6.6 years	32 ACLR				Meniscus Arrow		28.6% failure rate
Siebold [53]	95	30	6 years	63 ACLR	RR R–W	77 MM 18 LM	3 months	Meniscus Arrow	Clinical	28% meniscectomy ACL had no effect Lysholm 64 → 90.5
Kurzweil [54]	57	27	54 months	42 ACLR				Meniscus Arrow	2nd look arthroscopy and MRI	28% failure rate
Kotsovolos [32]	58 37 M 21 F	32.6	18 months	36 ACLR	RR 36% R–W 64%	34 MM 27 LM	76 days	FasT-Fix	Clinical	9.8% failure Lysholm 43.6 → 87.5 4 stiff knee
Barber [55]	41 25 M 11 F	28	30.7 months	29 ACLR	R–R 37% R–W 63%	26 MM 15 LM	13 weeks	FasT-Fix	Clinical	Lysholm 47.3 → 87.4 17% meniscectomy
Tachibana [34]	46 20 M 26 W	26.5	14 months	46 ACLR	R–R 34 R–W 28	28 MM 34 LM	37 months	FasT-Fix	2nd Look arthroscopy
Konan [51]	288	32	18 months	138 ACLR		171 LM 141 MM		54 Meniscus Arrow 258 FasT-Fix	Clinical ± MRI if clinical doubt	22.2% failure rate Meniscus Arrow 10.3% failure rate FasT-Fix 3 painful capsular sutures requiring removal