Evaluation of the Trends, Concomitant Procedures, and Complications With Open and Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repairs in the Medicare Population.

Background: Medicare insures the largest population of patients at risk for rotator cuff tears in the United States.

Purpose: To evaluate the trends in incidence, concomitant procedures, and complications with open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs in Medicare patients.

Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3.

Arthroscopic double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: an anatomic approach.

The anterior cruciate ligament consists of 2 functional bundles, the anteromedial and the posterolateral bundle. Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction has traditionally focused on recreating the anteromedial bundle, while the reconstruction of the posteromedial bundle has not routinely been addressed. The authors, from 2 academic centers, present a technique of arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction that restores both the anteromedial and the posterolateral bundle using either semitendinosus and gracilis autografts or tibialis anterior allografts.

Surgical management of knee dislocations. Surgical technique.

Background: The evaluation and management of knee dislocations remain variable and controversial. The purpose of this study was to describe our method of surgical treatment of knee dislocations with use of a standardized protocol and to report the clinical results.

Methods: Forty-seven consecutive patients presented with an occult (reduced) or grossly dislocated knee.

The acutely dislocated knee: evaluation and management.

Acute knee dislocations are uncommon orthopaedic injuries. Because they often spontaneously reduce before initial evaluation, the true incidence is unknown. Dislocation involves injury to multiple ligaments of the knee, resulting in multidirectional instability.