Researchers studied 208 patients who were randomized into allograft or autograft groups. All hamstring tendon allografts were fresh frozen and all procedures were performed by the same surgeon using the same surgical technique.
The researchers were able to fully evaluate 186 patients through a mean follow-up period of 7.8 years. There weren’t any statistically significant differences between the two groups, although patients in the allograft group had a shorter operation time. Seven patients in the autograft group, compared with eight patients in the allograft group, had a side-to-side difference. The two groups reported similar pain scores.
Read the abstract about allograft and autograft for ACL repair.
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