March 3, 2021

Effect of Early Residual Laxity After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction on Long-term Laxity, Graft Failure, Return to Sports, and Subjective Outcome at 25 Years

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Abstract

A slightly loose graft at 6 months after ACLR increased the risk of later ACL revision surgery and/or graft failure, reduced the length of the athlete's sports career, caused permanent increased anterior laxity, and led to an inferior Lysholm score.

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Lindanger et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dc1a8b8e41b05fe395518c https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546521990801

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