A Father’s Gift. On Fanpage, the article dedicated to the first living donor acl reconstruction in Italy.
A Father’s Gift. The Tendon Transplant
“Lorenzo is 15 years old and has been playing football since he was 4. His first word was “goal”, but his dream was at risk of fading after an injury on the field that led to a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament. His father, Alessandro, saved this great passion by donating his knee tendon to Lorenzo to allow the reconstruction of the cruciate ligament and significantly reduce the risk of a new injury in the future. The operation, performed at the Pinerolo hospital in Turin by orthopedic surgeons Mario Formagnana and Simone Perelli, was the first in Italy to involve tendon transplantation from one living being to another.
The first father-to-son tendon transplant in Italy. The story of Alessandro and Lorenzo has moved and touched the country, both for the “love shown by a father and for the courage and professionalism of the doctors who completed the” operation. Fanpage.it went to Piacenza, where Lorenzo is undergoing rehabilitation.
Lorenzo is a 15-year-old teenager, with clear ideas about his passions from a very young age: “My first word – he tells Fanpage.it – was goal. I started playing soccer at 4 years old in a small team in Piacenza and I never stopped”.
The Injury and the Tendon Transplant
Until last year, when Lorenzo got injured on the field: “We were playing the semifinal of our championship and while controlling a ball, I put my knee down badly. I immediately knew something had gone wrong”.
Lorenzo looks at the coach on the bench. He is helped and subsequently taken to the emergency room, but further tests will be needed for a diagnosis: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee.”
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