Arthroscopy News

BOSTON — Predictors of failure to achieve a minimally clinically important difference following hip arthroscopy include mental health, symptom duration length, non-intra-articular hip related pain and preoperative intra-articular injections, according to a presentation at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

During hip arthroscopy, patients showed more improvement in patient-reported and clinical outcomes after interportal capsulotomy with closure than with unrepaired T-capsulotomy or interportal capsulotomy without closure.

BOSTON — At the 13-year follow-up, 5.4% of contact athletes underwent revision arthroscopic posterior capsulolabral repair, according to a presenter at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

BOSTON — Use of non-rigid suture fixation with a cortical button fixation device may be a safe alternative to traditional screw fixation in arthroscopic Latarjet procedures, according to results presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

Preoperative opioid prescription filling increased the risk for postoperative opioid prescription refills in patients who underwent cartilage restoration procedures of the knee, according to recently published results.

BOSTON — A presenter at the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting discussed recommendations, practices and protocols in the first national consensus-based best practice guidelines for hip arthroscopy in patients with femoroacetabular impingement.

A combination of bony and dynamic and static soft tissue stabilizers provides for stability of the patellofemoral joint. Therefore, the etiology of patellar instability is multifactorial and often includes trochlear dysplasia, patella alta, coronal malalignment, torsional abnormalities and incompetent medial soft tissue constraints. Recent studies have indicated that trochlear dysplasia is the key anatomic risk factor leading to persistent patellar instability. Though trochlear dysplasia is frequently present in patients with patellar instability, correction of this dysplasia through deepening trochleoplasty is only indicated in a subset of patients. This article describes the sulcus-deepening trochleoplasty, including indications and technical pearls.

BOSTON — Patients who undergo all-inside arthroscopic repair for posterior meniscal root tears have improved clinical outcomes compared with patients managed nonoperatively, according to results of a study presented here.

According to recently published results, good clinical and radiological outcomes were seen with both fixed and adjustable loop cortical suspension devices in ACL reconstruction. No significant differences were seen with regard to synovial coverage and rupture of the graft with second-look arthroscopy.

Researchers saw better outcomes in patients who underwent arthroscopic femoroacetabular correction and hip labral repair with capsulotomy repair at the midterm follow-up compared with those who did not have capsulotomy repair, according to recently published results.