Complications following arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. A 2-5-year follow-up of 604 patients with special emphasis on anterior knee pain.

The aim of the study was to assess knee function after arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and to analyse complications impeding rehabilitation, additional surgery until the final follow-up, as well as residual patellofemoral pain and donor-site problems. Between 1991 and 1994, 635 patients were operated on using patellar tendon autografts and interference screw fixation. Of these, 604 (95.

Bone mineral assessments in the calcaneus after anterior cruciate ligament injury. An investigation of 92 male patients before and two years after reconstruction or revision surgery.

The aim of this study was to assess the Bone Mineral Areal mass (BMA) in the calcaneus of male patients with unilateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury before and after reconstruction and to assess whether the BMA ratio or the BMA of the injured and uninjured side correlated with the level of activity, functional performance or the time period between the injury and the reconstruction. Ninety-two male patients with unilateral ACL injury were included in the study. The BMA was analysed immediately prior to surgery: a median of 11 (2-192) months after the injury in 30 patients aged 26 (15-41) years scheduled for primary ACL reconstruction (Group A).

Is bracing after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction necessary? A 2-year follow-up of 78 consecutive patients rehabilitated with or without a brace.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a standard postoperative rehabilitation knee brace on function, stability and postoperative complications at the 2-year follow-up after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery. Seventy-eight consecutive patients with a unilateral chronic ACL rupture reconstructed by the same surgeon using the endoscopic "all-inside" technique, patellar tendon autograft and interference screw fixation were included in the study. The rehabilitation followed a standard protocol.

Neonatal hip instability: normal values for physiological movement of the femoral head determined by an anterior-dynamic ultrasound method.

A total of 910 clinically normal hips in neonates younger than 48 h old was examined using an anterior-dynamic ultrasound method to determine normal values for the femoral head diameter and physiological movement of the femoral head in relation to the acetabulum. The femoral head diameters were found to correlate positively with both birthweight and gestational age and to be larger in boys than in girls, the mean values being 16.08 +/- 1.