Thursday, August 21, 2014

Higher ACL Reconstruction Failure Rate Found With Allograft In Young Athletes...

A recent study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine found that young athletes with ACL surgery using cadaver grafts had a failure rate three times higher compared with athletes undergoing reconstruction with their own hamstring graft. The average age of the patients in they study was 29 years. Failure rate for cadaver grafts was 26.5%, while 8.5% for autografts...

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