Knee Ligament Surgery
A 22-year-old female soccer player presents with an ACL rupture confirmed on MRI. She has a positive Lachman test and pivot shift. She is highly motivated to return to elite-level sports and wants to discuss graft options. She has hypermobile joints (Beighton score 7/9) and plays in a high-demand pivoting sport. Regarding ACL reconstruction graft selection:
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Graft options include bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB), hamstring (semitendinosus Ā± gracilis), quadri...
BTB autograft is often preferred in high-demand athletes due to rapid bone-to-bone healing, lower re...
Allografts have the lowest re-rupture rates in young athletes; hamstring grafts cause more anterior ...
Patient factors affecting graft choice include age (younger patients have higher re-rupture risk wit...
Hamstring autograft advantages include less anterior knee pain and donor site morbidity, no risk of ...
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