Revision Quadriceps Tendon Rupture Repair Using BioBrace Augment: A Novel Case and Technique

Quadriceps tendon retears are a challenging injury to repair/reconstruct, resulting from eccentric traumatic knee events. Chronic tears or failed reconstructions have stretched out or attenuated tissue that needs to be excised to regain lag-free knee extension after repair. To create a strong repair, augmentation with either an allograft or an autograft is often required. We propose the use of bio-composite material BioBrace® (ConMed, New Haven, Connecticut) to augment the repair, giving both structural support immediately after repair and biological induction of host tissue into the graft as it gradually resorbs. We describe a repair and augment technique that is easily reproducible.