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Compared with cemented humeral stems, uncemented stems yielded similar functional outcomes, pain, range of motion and tuberosity healing in patients undergoing reverse shoulder arthroplasty for proximal humerus fractures.
In April of 2021, Luciano Andrés Rossi, MD, PhD, and colleagues usedPubMed, Scopus Web of Science and Cochrane Library databases to perform a systematic review of 45 studies reporting outcomes of RSA in 1,623 patients with proximal humerus fractures (PHFs).
According to the study, outcome measures included range of motion (ROM), American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) scores, Constant scores, VAS pain scores, tuberosity healing, complications and reoperations. The researchers also performed subgroup analysis to determine any differences in outcomes between patients who underwent RSA with a cemented humeral stem (cRSA) and patients who underwent RSA with an uncemented humeral stem (ucRSA).
Overall, Rossi and colleagues found no significant differences in ROM, Constant scores, VAS scores, tuberosity healing or reoperation rates between the cRSA and ucRSA cohorts. However, mean ASES score was 73.9 in the cRSA cohort and was 82.9 in the ucRSA cohort. Additionally, all-cause complications were lower in the cRSA cohort (5.5%) compared with the ucRSA cohort (9.7%), the researchers noted.
“As RSA continues to be applied as a first-line surgical approach for PHFs, it is imperative to better understand if differences in fixation methods may influence outcomes,” Rossi and colleagues wrote in the study. “Although the rate of complications was significantly higher in the uncemented cohort compared to the cemented cohort, the rate of reoperations was similar between the groups. The uncemented reverse prosthesis seems to be a valid alternative for the management of patients with complex PHFs,” they added.