Out of the more than 200,000 ACL reconstruction surgeries that are performed in the United States every year, 1-8 percent end in failure. However, revision ACL reconstruction surgery has a 14 percent failure rate. Washington University received $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to fund the research.
The study will compare surgical techniques and analyze outcomes for patients undergoing ACL surgery to learn why the revision surgery has a higher failure rate. A previous study has found that the strongest predictor for bad outcomes after ACL surgery was whether that surgery was the initial or a revision procedure.
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