WANTED: PATIENTS FOR STUDY OF ACL PRESERVING SURGERY (Orthopedics This Week)
Craig Della Valle, M.D., a hip and knee replacement surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, is recruiting patients for a new total knee replacement procedure that preserves the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Most standard knee replacement surgeries remove the ACL. Della Valle is performing this study to learn if this ACL-preserving knee implant design will give patients a knee that feels more normal and natural because it is more stable. To be considered, patients must have knee ...