Key result
The arthroscopic capsular suture-lifting technique provided a reliable and effective solution for treating femoroacetabular impingement patients with a high risk of postoperative anterior instability.
Why the study?
In patients undergoing hip arthroscopy with a high risk of anterior instability, capsulotomy without repair causes postoperative anterior instability, highlighting the need for anterior-stabilizing capsular suturing techniques.
The arthroscopic capsular suture-lifting technique may provide a reliable solution to prevent postoperative anterior hip instability in high-risk FAI patients.
With the increasing popularity of hip arthroscopy, postoperative iatrogenic instability due to bony and soft-tissue issues has been noted by more orthopaedic surgeons. Although there is a low risk of serious complications in patients with normal hip joint development even without suturing of the joint capsule, for patients with a preoperative high risk of anterior instability-including those with excessive anteversion of the acetabulum or femur, borderline dysplasia of the hip, and hip arthroscopic revision surgery with an anterior defect of the joint capsule-capsulotomy without repair will result in postoperative anterior instability of the hip joint and related symptoms. Capsular suturing techniques that provide anterior stabilization will be of great help for these high-risk patients and reduce the possibility of postoperative anterior instability. In this Technical Note, we introduce the arthroscopic capsular suture-lifting technique for treating femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) patients with a high risk of postoperative hip instability. In the past 2 years, the capsular suture-lifting technique has been used to treat FAI patients with borderline dysplasia of the hip and excessive femoral neck anteversion, and clinical results have shown that the suture-lifting technique provides a reliable and effective solution for FAI patients with a high risk of postoperative anterior hip instability.
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Tian et al. (2023) studied Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) with high risk of postoperative anterior instability. Arthroscopic capsular suture-lifting technique was evaluated. The arthroscopic capsular suture-lifting technique provided a reliable and effective solution for treating femoroacetabular impingement patients with a high risk of postoperative anterior instability.
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