Clinical Outcomes After Combined ACL and Anterolateral Ligament Reconstruction Versus Isolated ACL Reconstruction With Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Grafts: A Matched-Pair Analysis of 2018 Patients From the SANTI Study Group.
Charles PiogerLampros GousopoulosGraeme Philip HopperThais Dutra VieiraJoao Pedro CamposAbdo El HelouCorentin PhilippeAdnan SaithnaBertrand Sonnery-CottetPublished in: The American journal of sports medicine (2022)
Patients who underwent isolated ACLR with BPTB autografts experienced significantly worse graft survivorship and overall reoperation-free survivorship compared with those who underwent combined ACLR + ALLR with HT autografts. The risk of graft ruptures was >3-fold higher in patients who underwent isolated ACLR using BPTB autografts.