
Sports Medicine
Significantly higher revision rates with acute primary repair procedure for ACL ruptures
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J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006 May;88(5):944-52
147 patients with ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament were randomised to undergo one of three surgical procedures. The three procedures were acute primary repair, acute repair augmented with a synthetic ligament-augmentation device, and acute repair augmented with autologous bone-patellar tendon-bone graft. The primary outcomes were pain and function. The results indicated that the primary repair intervention resulted in significantly greater revision rates compared to the other two procedures.
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