Enhancing Efficiency in Meniscal Repair: A Novel In-House Vacuum Suction Technique for Suture Loading in Long Hollow Needles and Devices.

Background: Suture-loaded long hollow needles are used in arthroscopic surgery to pass or retrieve sutures and in meniscal repair surgeries. However, manual suture loading can be time-consuming and challenging, especially with finer sutures. We present a novel technique using vacuum suction to simplify and expedite suture loading in hollow needles and similar devices.

Extended Medial Coronal Plane Plica Formed by a Rare Fusion of Medial Patellar and Biblike Plicae in the Knee: A Case Report.

The traditional plicae of the knee have been updated recently with reports of new variants in the coronal plane. We report another variant, an extended medial coronal plane plica (EMCPP), previously unreported, in a 70-year-old lady with osteoarthritis of the knee and a loose body. The preoperative symptoms after the excision of the plica and loose body were temporarily relieved for 11 months before she underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for associated osteoarthritis.