Volker Musahl

The use of patellar tendon autograft and lateral meniscus repair are associated with loss of motion of the knee among female patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Abstract Purpose To conduct a sex‐stratified analysis of factors associated with subsequent surgery for loss of motion after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), including meniscus repair and graft type. Methods All individuals age ≥14 years who underwent primary ACL...

Development and validation of natural language processing pipelines to extract injury and surgery-related data elements from ACL reconstruction operative reports

BACKGROUND: Over 100,000 patients undergo ACLR each year in the United States, providing rich electronic medical record data to improve outcomes, but manual chart review can be time-consuming and expensive. Natural language processing (NLP) methods have been successfully used to...