BookRobert G. Marx, editor.
Summary: Although anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has a high success rate, a substantial number of patients are left with unsatisfactory results. Revision ACL Reconstruction: Indications and Technique provides detailed strategies for planning and executing revision ACL reconstructions. Concise chapters by a leading group of international orthopedic surgeons cover the diagnosis of failed ACL reconstruction, patient evaluation, preoperative planning for revision ACL surgery, and complex technical considerations.
Contents:
Patient-related risk factors for ACL graft failure
Avoiding the failed ACL: how to prevent ACL tears before they occur
Diagnosis of failed ACL reconstruction
Biomechanics and Etiology of ACL graft failure
Technical causes of ACL graft failure
Indications for revision ACL reconstruction
Preoperative planning for revision ACL reconstruction
Graft selection for revision ACL reconstruction
How to handle a poorly placed femoral tunnel
How to handle a poorly placed tibial tunnel
Fixation in revision ACL reconstruction
Single stage ACL revision reconstruction: indications and technique
Two stage ACL revision: indications and technique
Revising failed double-bundle ACL reconstruction
The role of lateral extra-arcticular augmentation in revision ACL reconstruction
Managing the infected ACL reconstruction
Meniscus allograft transplantation in revision ACL reconstruction
Cartilage surgery in revision ACL reconstruction
Medial collateral ligament laxity in revision ACL reconstruction
Posterolateral corner deficiency in revision ACL reconstruction
Osteotomy for slope correction following failed ACL reconstruction
Osteotomy for malalignment following failed ACL reconstruction
Navigation for revision ACL reconstruction
Approach to the multiply revised ACL knee
Outcomes of revision ACL.