Performing a database search, McCormick and colleagues conducted a retrospective review of 556,521 patients found to have meniscal pathology, with 291 patients undergoing meniscal allograft transplantation between 2007 and 2011. Overall, 21.6% of patients who underwent meniscal allograft transplantation were between the ages of 15 years and 19 years and 18.2% were between the ages of 20 years and 24 years.
At 90 days postoperatively, McCormick noted a 0% incidence of postoperative return to OR rate.
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