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An all-arthroscopic technique of xenograft patch augmentation is described for the repair of massive rotator cuff tears to augment biological healing when tendon quality is compromised.
Describes an all-arthroscopic technique of xenograft patch augmentation for the repair of massive rotator cuff tears.
Feasible in animal model; leaves open human translation and efficacy for massive rotator cuff repair.
Surgical management of massive rotator cuff tears is plagued by structural failure rates as high as 94%. Multiple arthroscopic and open techniques have been described, but there is no current gold standard. Biological healing at the tendon footprint is key to avoiding failure. Xenograft patch placement has been described as a possible technique to augment the biology of rotator cuff repair when tendon quality is compromised. The purpose of this article is to describe an all-arthroscopic technique of patch augmentation for repair of massive rotator cuff tears.
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Levy et al. (2016) studied Massive rotator cuff tears. All-arthroscopic patch augmentation was evaluated. An all-arthroscopic technique of xenograft patch augmentation is described for the repair of massive rotator cuff tears to augment biological healing when tendon quality is compromised.
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