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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10050912
Keywords
anterior cruciate ligament; ACL repair; dynamic intraligamentary stabilization; suture tape augmentation; suture tape reinforcement; suture anchor primary repair; bridge-enhanced ACL repair
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- research foundation Flanders (FWO Vlaanderen), Belgium [T001017N]
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This article summarized the important advances in ACL repair over the past decade, indicating that ACL can heal, and reiterated the importance of patient selection.
Until the past decade the common thought was that the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was not able to heal and restore knee stability. In this manuscript a brief review of studies of the developers and the early adaptors of four different modern ACL repair techniques are presented. The present status and considerations for the future of ACL repair and its research are shared. After promising short- to midterm ACL healing results by the developers, the results of the early adaptors show more variety in terms of rerupture and reintervention for other reasons. Risk factors for failure are a young age, high preinjury sports activity level, midsubstance ruptures and impaired integrity of the ACL bundles and the synovial sheath. There is a call for more clinical data and randomized clinical trials. Conclusion: an important finding of the past decade is that the ACL is able to heal and subsequently restabilize the knee. Patient selection is emphasized: the ideal patient is a non-high athlete older than 25 and has an acute proximal one bundle ACL rupture. Further research will have to show if ACL repair could be a game changer or if history will repeat itself.
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