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Managing the Infected ACL Reconstruction

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Although infrequent, infection after ACL reconstruction is a potentially devastating complication. The diagnosis can often be elusive and the treatment and eradication challenging. There is a relative paucity of guidance that can be gleamed from the literature and what does exist is fairly heterogeneous and difficult to interpret as a whole. This chapter addresses some of the controversies and challenges of diagnosis and treatment of the infected ACL reconstruction. A proposed management algorithm is suggested, derived from the best available current evidence.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedics, St. Michael’s Hospital, 300-55 Queen Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5C 1R6

    Daniel Burke Whelan MD, MSc, FRCSC & Nicholas J. Yardley MD, FRCSC

  2. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Howard E. Rosenberg MD

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Whelan, D.B., Rosenberg, H.E., Yardley, N.J. (2014). Managing the Infected ACL Reconstruction. In: Marx, R. (eds) Revision ACL Reconstruction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0766-9_16

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