Etienne Cavaignac, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Toulouse University Hospital
Toulouse, France
Dr. Cavaignac is a knee surgeon in Toulouse (France) whose clinical practice consists mainly of ACL reconstruction and knee arthroplasty procedures. He was awarded a travelling fellowship by the SFA (Francophone Society of Arthroscopy) in 2017 and is currently the Treasurer of the ESSKA.
He is also a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery at the Toulouse University Hospital. His research focuses on combined ACL/ALL reconstruction, use of ultrasound imaging in clinical practice to evaluate the ALL, and on treating arthrogenic muscle inhibition in ACL-deficient knees. He was awarded a PhD in Anthropology in 2017 based on his research into ethnic, sexual and age-related dimorphisms in the shape of the femur.
He is currently a reviewer for several orthopedic journals and serves on the editorial board of AJSM, OJSM, VJSM, KSSTA and OTSR. He is a native French speaker, and also speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Selected Publications
Vari N, Marot V, Ripoll T, Vieira TD, Martinel V, Berard E, Cavaignac E. Preserving the Semitendinosus Distal Attachment Is Associated With Improved Graft Remodeling After ACL Reconstruction. AJSM. 2023;51:2064-2072
Vari N, Marot V, Cavaignac M, Vieira TD, Bérard É, Cavaignac E. Factors Affecting Graft Remodeling and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: MRI Study of 180 Knees. AJSM 2023 Jul;51(8):2073-2078.
Teulières M, Berard E, Marot V, Reina N, Ferre F, Minville V, Cavaignac E. A quadruple peripheral nerve block outside the OR for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction reduces the OR occupancy time. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2023; 31: 2917–2926
Gracia G, Cavaignac M, Marot V, Mouarbes D, Laumonerie P, Cavaignac E. Epidemiology of Combined Injuries of the Secondary Stabilizers in ACL-Deficient Knees: Medial Meniscal Ramp Lesion, Lateral Meniscus Root Tear, and ALL Tear: A Prospective Case Series of 602 Patients With ACL Tears From the SANTI Study Group. AJSM 2022 Jun;50(7):1843-1849.
Sonnery-Cottet B, Ripoll T, Cavaignac E. Prevention of knee stiffness following ligament reconstruction: What does Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition (AMI) means? Rev. de Chir. Orthop. et Traumatol. 2023 (in press)
Bouguennec B, Thaunat M, Barth J, Cavaignac E, and the Francophone Arthroscopy Society (SFA), Consensus statement on data to be entered in the ACL tear registry: SFA-DataLake, Orthop Traumatol Surg Res. 2022;108(8S):103392
Mesnier T, Cavaignac M, Marot V, Reina N, Cavaignac E. Knee Anterolateral Ligament Reconstruction With Knotless Soft Anchor: Shallow Fixation Prevents Tunnel Convergence, Arthrosc. Tech. 2022; 11: e511-e516
Cavaignac E, Castoldi M, Marot V, Courtot L, Gracia G, Reina N. Minimally Invasive Ultrasound-Guided Anterolateral Ligament Reconstruction With Autologous 2-Strand Gracilis Graft. Arthrosc Tech. 2019; 8:e685-e689
Cavaignac E Editorial Commentary: Looking Outside the Box With Ultrasound in an Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Deficient Knee: Welcome to Surgery 2.0.Arthroscopy. 2018; 34:2177-2178
Cavaignac E, Laumond G, Reina N, Wytrykowski K, Murgier J, Faruch M, Chiron P. How to Test the Anterolateral Ligament With Ultrasound. Arthrosc Tech. 2017;7:e29-e31
Cavaignac E, Faruch M, Wytrykowski K, Constant O, Murgier J, Berard E, Chiron P. Ultrasonographic evaluation of anterolateral ligament injuries : correlation with magnetic resonance imaging and pivot-shift testing. Arthroscopy. 2017;33:1384-1390
Cavaignac E, Ancelin D, Chiron P, Tricoire JL, WYtrykowski K, Faruch M, Chantalat E. Historical Perspective on the “discovery” of the anterolateral ligament of the knee. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2017;25:991-996
Cavaignac E, Faruch M, Savall F, Chiron P, Telmon N. Geometric morphometric analysis reveals age-related differences in the distal femur of Europeans. J Exp Orthop. 2017; 4:21
Cavaignac E, Li K, Faruch M, Savall F, Chiron P, Huang W, Telmon N. Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis reveals ethnic dimorphism in the shape of the femur. J Exp Orthop. 2017; 4:13
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