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Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy· 2019Q1

Vancomycin pre-soaking of the graft reduces postoperative infection rate without increasing risk of graft failure and arthrofibrosis in ACL reconstruction

Christoph Offerhaus, Maurice Balke, Juliane Hente, Mats Gehling et al.

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Pre-soaking ACL grafts in vancomycin solution reduced deep knee infection rates from 2% to 0% (n=1779) without increasing graft failure or arthrofibrosis.

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