What Factors are Associated With Clinically Important Improvement After Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty for Cuff Tear Arthropathy?

CONCLUSION: Patients with intact teres minor and subscapularis tendons and patients with lower preoperative external rotation had a better prognosis for achieving a clinically important percentage of MPI at short-term followup. Although some patients were followed for more than 10 years, the majority were followed for fewer than 5 years; future studies will need to determine whether these early functional results are maintained for longer periods. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study. PMID: 27530396 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research