Use of Supercritical Sterilized Bone Allograft in Two Stage Revision ACL Reconstruction

摘要

Objectives:Revision ACL-reconstruction can be compromised by bone loss as result of tunnel widening or poorly placed tunnels. Two-stage revision ACL consist of initial removal of the old fixation hardware and remaining ACL-graft tissue, followed by bone grafting of the tunnels. After a period of graft incorporation and bone remodeling, an ACL-reconstruction is performed. Our primary aim is to examine the use of supercritical carbon dioxide sterilized bone allograft for tunnel grafting in order to determine the bone quality, graft incorporation and remodeling, by using histology and histomorphometric analysis. Secondarily, we aimed to determine whether the histological findings correlate with the timing of the second stage revision procedure.