Clinical evaluation of arthroscopically assisted anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Patellar tendon versus gracilis and semitendinosus autograft

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study Evaluating 3 Different Grafts Using Same Bone Drilling Method

“…[18][19][20][21][22][23]32 In addition, the assessed clinical outcomes have been used in the majority of articles published in the ACL reconstruction literature. Although other authors have reported longer followup, 5,11,13,14,16,24 a follow-up of 2 years may be considered long enough to report clinical outcomes in ACL reconstruction. 37,38 In fact, most studies report the short-term and midterm instead of the long-term follow-up.…”

“…2 Bone-to-bone attachment was suggested to offer greater knee stability compared with HT grafts, 3,4 but no significant differences on knee laxity between both types of graft have been reported in the literature. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Less controversy exists with the fact that the BPTB ACL reconstruction can be associated with increased donor-site morbidity. 3,8,10,13,16,17 Overall, the answer regarding which technique provides the best clinical outcomes in ACL reconstruction has not been determined.…”

Hamstring tendon autograft better than bone patellartendon bone autograft in ACL reconstruction A cumulative meta-analysis and clinically relevant sensitivity analysis applied to a previously published analysis

“…In the paper by Biau and co-workers, we identified 14 primary studies with data available on anterior knee pain from 1991 to 2005 (Marder et al 1991, Aglietti et al 1994, 1997, Callaway et al 1994, Aune et al 2001, Eriksson et al 2001a, b, Feller et al 2001, Ropke et al 2001, Beynnon et al 2002, Shaieb et al 2002, Ejerhed et al 2003, Feller and Webster 2003, Hantes et al 2004, Ibrahim et al 2005, Laxdal et al 2005, Biau et al 2006). Our cumulative meta-analysis showed that statistical significance that hamstring autograft reduces ante- …”

Hydroxyapatite-doped polycaprolactone nanofiber membrane improves tendon–bone interface healing for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

“…[1][2][3] From a clinical point of view, hamstring tendon autograft is a well-accepted surgical choice for ACL reconstruction because of advantages such as low possibility of donor-site morbidity and degenerative joint disease as well as high extension strength. [4][5][6] An ACL reconstruction surgery normally involves penetrating a tendon autograft through bone tunnel and anchoring it between the tibia and the femur. A critical clinical issue is that the healing time of the tendon in the bone tunnel is relatively long as a result of the lack of a suitable biointerface between the tendon and bone for efficient integration.…”