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Tesa Medical receives patent for ACL reconstruction device

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Tesa Medical Inc. announced the issuance of a U.S. patent for the GraftGrab.

Designed to aid surgeons performing ACL reconstruction and to improve patient outcomes after surgery, the GraftGrab is a device to fix an ACL graft with a single fluid motion to maintain graft tension and reduce surgery time and instrumentation, according to a press release.

“Loss of initial graft tension continues to be a problem with soft tissue interference screws and can contribute to problems associated with joint instability,” Mandi Lopez, PhD, co-inventor of the GraftGrab, stated in the release. “The bioabsorbable GraftGrab is positioned on the cortical surface of the tibial bone tunnel and has a simple mechanism for anchoring the graft immediately after tensioning that minimizes the likelihood of graft tension loss.”