IC: 101
Title: IC 101: Which ACL Reconstruction Needs More? A Case-Based Discussion of Slope Correction, Lateral Augmentation, Meniscal Transplantation
Course Description:
Despite significant advances in anatomic ACL reconstruction, failure in at-risk patients continues to be a challenge for treating surgeons. An improved understanding of modifiable risk factors, including tibial slope, coronal malalignment, hyperlaxity, condylar geometry, and meniscal deficiency, have all be recognized as potentially contributory to recurrent failure despite anatomic ACL reconstruction. In 2021, however, the indications for slope and/or alignment correction or augmentation procedures (i.e., anterolateral ligament, iliotibial band based lateral augmentation, etc.) remain difficult to definitively define for treating surgeons. Using a case-based approach, this ICL will use a case-based approach to presents these concepts and the considerations for graft selection, slope and alignment correction, and augmentation for primary ACL reconstruction. Use of these procedures must be balanced with the potential morbidity of additional surgery and over constraint of the knee.
Learning Objectives:
Faculty
Asheesh Bedi, MD
Jorge Chahla, MD, PhD
Alan M. Getgood, MD, FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Christopher M. Larson, MD
Bryson P. Lesniak
Volker Musahl, MD
Alexander E. Weber, MD.