Results showed revision procedures and younger patients had a higher incidence of infection after ACL reconstruction, while use of bone-patellar tendon-bone autografts yielded a low risk of infection.
Researchers performed a retrospective medical record review of 11,451 ACL reconstruction procedures performed between January 2010 and December 2018 to determine the incidence of infections, patient and procedure characteristics associated with an infection, infection characteristics, incidence of ACL graft retention and factors associated with the retention vs. removal of an ACL graft.