The ACL-Deficient Knee

FOREWORD I.- FOREWORD II.- Treatment ACL-injuries  – still an unsolved  clinical problem?.- PREFACE.- Historical Aspects on Surgery for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency.- Evidence-Based Medicine. How Can we Use it to Guide our Practice?.- What have we learned from the Kaiser Permanente Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Registry (KP ACLRR)?.- The Danish anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction registry. What we are doing, how we do it, and which would be the best way to do it.- ACL ruptures in the female athlete. Can we predict who is at increased risk and can we reduce noncontact injury rates?.- Anterior cruciate ligament surgery – risk factors for development of osteoarthritis. What can we do to prevent it?.- The need for an objective measurement in-vivo of rotational stability of the ACL-deficient knee. How can we measure it?.- Guidelines for operative versus nonoperative management of ACL injuries.- The stimulation of healing of the anterior cruciate ligament. Researchand clinical relevance.- ACL Primary Repair. What we did, the results and how it helps today to tailor treatments to the patient and the pathology.- Graft choice in ACL reconstruction. Which one and why?.- Graft healing in ACL reconstruction: Can we enhance it in clinical practice?.- Is double-bundle ACL reconstruction necessary?.- ACL injuries in skeletally immature patients and adolescents. How can we improve the high rate of poor outcomes?.- Indications for ancillary surgery in the ACL deficient knee.- Outpatient  ACL surgery. Is it safe?.- Factors related to return to sport after ACL reconstruction: When is it safe?.- Return to sports after ACL reconstruction surgery. A risk for further joint injury?.- Psychological factors in the ACL reconstruction population. Are they predictive of patient outcomes?.- Acute anterior cruciate ligament tear surgery. Repair vs. reconstruction. When?.- Partial chronic anterior cruciate ligaments tears. What to do.- Chronic anterior cruciate ligamenttear. Single-bundle ACL reconstruction. Anteromedial portal versus transfemoral outside-in versus transtibial drilling technique.- Anterior cruciate ligament tear. Rationale and indications for anatomic ACL reconstruction.- Clinical relevance of meniscus in the treatment of the ACL-deficient knee. The real  value of meniscal transplantation.- Clinical relevance of chondral lesions in the treatment of the ACL-deficient knee: Microfracture technique.- The role of high-tibial osteotomy in the ACL-deficient knee.- ACL injuries combined with lateral and medial knee injuries. Acute vs. chronic injury. What to do.- ACL injuries in children.Treatment and Outcomes. Personal experience.- Combined anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with patella tendon lengthening following a complex knee injury.- ACL graft failure.- Reducing the risk of a reinjury following ACL reconstruction. What factors should be used to allow unrestricted return to sports activities?.- Anterior knee pain after ACL reconstruction. How to avoid it.- Limitation of joint range of motion after surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament.- Septic arthritis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.- Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism after ACL reconstruction. What can we do to prevent it?.- VIDEO # 1 - ACL reconstruction augmentation technique AMB & PLB.- VIDEO # 2 - ACL reconstruction. The surgical technique.- VIDEO # 3 - Anatomic ACL reconstruction: (3-1) Anatomic single bundle ACL reconstruction, (3-2) Anatomic double bundle ACL reconstruction.- VIDEO # 4 – Lateral meniscus transplantation. Surgical technique. Bonus track: medial and lateral meniscal implants (ACTIFIT) + ACL reconstruction (BTPB).- VIDEO # 5 - What factors should be used to allow unrestricted return to sports activities?