Achilles tendon surgical revision with synthetic augmentation.
case_report · Level V
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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((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.
Medical subject headings
- Achilles Tendon
- Biocompatible Materials
- Foreign-Body Reaction
- Prostheses and Implants