Medically reviewed by Maria M. LoTempio, MD The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of four primary ligaments that provides stability to the knee joint. If the ACL is torn, surgery may be needed ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD ACL surgery involves reconstructing an injured anterior cruciate ligament using a tendon graft that comes from either a deceased donor or the patient ...

Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations ... mitigating the likelihood of variably sized grafts and obviating the necessity of allograft ...

The lack of change in biomechanics of the control group, however, strongly supports that the changes we observed with this study are the result of ACL injury and ACLR only. The consistency of our ...

They described a valgus deformity after an ACL reconstruction in a young adult. In this case report, a 14-year-old patient had a soft tissue graft that was augmented in the tibial and femoral ...

Options include stacked screw fixation, jumbo interference screw fixation, fixation using a large allograft bone plug, or bone grafting with ACL reconstruction as a combined or staged procedure.

Reconstruction (ACLR): A surgical procedure to replace a torn ACL with a graft. Osteoarthritis (OA): A degenerative joint disease characterized by the breakdown of cartilage and underlying bone.

The findings indicated that allografts could be a viable alternative ... vary significantly between isolated PCL and combined PCL/ACL injuries[2]. This underscores the importance of thorough ...

Injured Crow Taylor Walker will today have a traditional hamstring graft to repair his ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), During the operation surgeons will also perform a procedure ...