In this paper we report about a 50-year-old patient who underwent a surgical revision procedure for rupture of the right Achilles tendon with the use of Ligastic(A (R)) synthetic graft in 1995, and in which a strong reactive immune response took place over the graft 11 years after. As far as we know, this is the first case described in literature of long-term follow-up inflammatory reaction after the use of such augmentation grafts in Achilles tendon repair.
Achilles tendon surgical revision with synthetic augmentation / L., Basiglini; Iorio, Raffaele; A., Vadala; Conteduca, Fabio; Ferretti, Andrea. - In: KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY. - ISSN 0942-2056. - STAMPA. - 18:5(2010), pp. 644-647. [10.1007/s00167-010-1085-5]
Achilles tendon surgical revision with synthetic augmentation
IORIO, RAFFAELE;CONTEDUCA, Fabio;FERRETTI, Andrea
2010
Abstract
In this paper we report about a 50-year-old patient who underwent a surgical revision procedure for rupture of the right Achilles tendon with the use of Ligastic(A (R)) synthetic graft in 1995, and in which a strong reactive immune response took place over the graft 11 years after. As far as we know, this is the first case described in literature of long-term follow-up inflammatory reaction after the use of such augmentation grafts in Achilles tendon repair.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
