Postoperative healing and complications based on anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction graft type.

ABSTRACT: Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a devastating injury to athletes of all ages. The current gold standard treatment following complete rupture of the ACL is reconstruction of the torn ligament with autograft or allograft tendon. Commonly used tendon grafts include patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, and quadriceps tendon. Although ligaments and tendons have similar collagen and proteoglycan compositions, they maintain a unique composition and arrangement of cells to serve their unique biomechanical needs. Therefore, following ACL reconstruction (ACLR), the implanted tendon tissue undergoes a process of remodeling which is termed "ligamentization". The process of ligamentization is divided into three main phases, which include the early healing phase, the proliferative phase,

SUBMITTER: Boyd E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11304102 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature