Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Clinical Advances and Prognosis
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Orthopedics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 November 2024 | Viewed by 6240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hip arthroplasty; knee fracture; sports medicine; knee arthroplasty; ACL reconstruction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) remains one of the most common surgical interventions in orthopaedics and sports medicine. Although more patients return to full activity without significant complications, there is still a continuous need for the evolution and improvement of existing techniques. Furthermore, there is still a lot of controversy regarding the ideal graft, while novel techniques have emerged, such as the all-inside repair technique or the utilization of scaffolds to enhance local biology, in an attempt to achieve better outcomes. The possibility of functional instead of surgical repair, graft choice, fixation of the graft, concomitant injuries and their management, and complications following reconstruction are some of the issues that orthopaedic surgeons have to face in everyday clinical practice when addressing ACL tears. Lastly, a relatively early but mainly safe return to sports, along with a high rate of patient satisfaction, constitutes a primary objective of ACL reconstruction.
The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive review of these challenges by collecting papers from an expert panel of authors, with a particular focus on clinical advances and prognosis after ACL reconstruction.
Dr. Georgios Komnos
Prof. Dr. Michael Hantes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anterior cruciate ligament
- ACL reconstruction
- ACL grafts
- ACL biology
- challenges
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Planned Papers
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Title: The Double-Edged Sword: ACL Reconstructions on Adolescent Patients - Growth Plate Surgical Challenges and Future Considerations.
Authors: Alexandria Mallinos; Kerwyn Jones
Affiliation: Akron Children's Hospital