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Failure rate after primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions

Background One of the most common sport injuries is anterior cruciate ligament injury, making anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL) a very common orthopaedics procedure. Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction can be performed using auto-graft from different sources like, bone patellar tendon graft, hamstring tendons (semitendinosus with or without gracilis) or peroneus longus tendon.

Methods A retrospective study of total 230 patients operated from June 2017 until December 2020. All of then underwent primary arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions using hamstring tendons auto-graft. The others underwent revision ACL; their primary surgery was done in other hospital.

Results Statistically, total rate of complications after primary ACL reconstructions, which was defined as the need for revision surgery, was five patients (2.17%) for home revision was done using contra lateral hamstring graft.

Conclusions A failure rate of 2.17 percent over the reported period of three years falls within reported rates in literature.