Editorial Commentary: Wanted Dead or Alive: Primary Allograft Labral Reconstruction of the Hip Is As Successful, if Not More Successful, Than Primary Labral Repair.

Abstract

Primary repair of acetabular labral tears has been the gold standard treatment with excellent short to mid-term results. Autograft and allograft labral reconstruction has been described mostly in the revision labral surgery setting with good short-term results. A recent study has compared primary labral reconstruction to labral repair head-to-head in the same patient. Primary labral reconstruction may be a suitable alternative to labral repair in patients with symptomatic labral pathology. Concerns remain, however, about sacrificing living labral tissue for dead allograft tissue for the long term.