The most common graft used for primary ACL reconstruction was hamstring tendon in 39 patients (54%) followed by patella tendon in 20 patients (28%). The commonest reason for graft failure after ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is ruptured 300,000 times a year in the United States alone. We think we know how to fix it…but do we? The ACL is the ligament that attaches the ...

Biological ACL graft failure is a complex pathological entity. This results in an atonic, disorganised and non-viable graft. Our aim was to study biological failure in patients undergoing revision ACL ...

But over the past decade or so, he said, interest in ACL repair has renewed, largely because reconstruction, while less invasive than in decades past, still involves taking grafts and drilling ...

Mark Callanan, MD, of The Orthopedic Clinic, has performed an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair using BEAR Implant, the first medical advancement to enable the body to heal its own torn ACL. The ...

If the injury to the ACL also affects the associated structures within the knee, including the menisci, PCL, medial collateral ligament, or lateral collateral ligament, surgical reconstruction is ...

“He is likely to require surgery to repair his damaged meniscus. “A further review of his ACL graft will need to be undertaken during ... wiping out his entire year, and a serious hamstring injury ...