A recent study published in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach compared ACL failure rates using allograft versus autograft tissues.
"This is the first review to examine young, active patients and how they perform following an ACL surgery using allografts (tissue from a cadaver) or autografts (patient’s own tissue). In our analysis, the pooled failure rate for autografts was 9.6 percent and 25 percent for allografts," said lead author, David Wasserstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC, of the University of Toronto in Canada.