Ligament/Tendon
Conventional repair strategies
- Autograft
- Patellar tendon
- Hamstring tendon
- Allograft
- Achilles tendon
- Patellar tendon
- Synthetic substitutes
- e.g. Dacron - no longer used due to poor clinical results
- Polyethylene terephthalate (Leeds-Keio Ligament)
- Woven porous tube
- Allows ingrowth of tissue
- Polypropylene (Kennedy ligament augmentation device)
- Diamond-braided cylindrical prosthesis
- Designed to be implanted with biological grafts
- Polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex)
- Looped fibres, joined to form a braid