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First patellar transplant at Oswestry

First patellar transplant at Oswestry. Last Saturday the first transplant of a patella was performed. The patient who had lost their patella 30 years before following a motorcycle accident. Despite having a good result from ACI to an area of cartilage loss in this knee, the patient could not regain good quadriceps muscle strength. Loss of the patella meant there was poor leverage for the quadirceps tendon. The operation involved making a split in the tendon and the new patella was inserted into a pouch and sutured into place. Immediate weight-bearing was possible. The patella was delivered frozen from the Liverpool bone and tissue bank.