Arthroscopy News

Although recreational athletes were significantly older than high-level athletes, both groups had high return-to-play rates and similar patient-reported outcomes after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement.

Duration of symptoms before surgery of full-thickness rotator cuff tears, tear size and tendon involvement may be used to preoperatively predict retear after arthroscopic repair using the suture bridge technique, according to results of this prognostic case series.

Patients who underwent arthroscopic reduction and suture pull-out fixation of McKeever type III and IV tibial spine avulsions experienced excellent clinical and radiological outcomes without any significant complications regardless of whether they had an open or closed physis.

SAN DIEGO — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Michael Hausman, MD, spoke about treatment options for tennis elbow. He and his colleagues have looked at a new surgical treatment using arthroscopic techniques that target what they think is the exact cause of symptoms and report successful outcomes.

SAN DIEGO — According to a study presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, 96% of recreational runners and competitive runners returned to sport 9 months after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement.

SAN DIEGO —  Benjamin G. Domb, MD, discussed a study that compared hip arthroscopy outcomes of acute vs. chronic labral tears in adolescents at a minimum 2-year follow-up. He said patients with acute labral tears improved more with hip arthroscopy, but had functional outcomes equivalent to patients with chronic labral tears. Domb also noted patients with acute labral tears had a greater rate of secondary operations.

Patients with multidirectional instability of the shoulder experienced an effective and safe treatment with arthroscopic pancapsular capsulorrhaphy with suture anchors at middle-term follow-up in a cohort study.

Results from this study demonstrated women, patients 70 years and older, obese patients, those with diabetes, depression disorders and rheumatoid arthritis had a higher chance of conversion to total knee arthroplasty 2 years following a knee arthroscopy.

No clinically significant difference was seen in preoperative hip range of motion after the induction of general anesthesia among patients undergoing hip arthroscopy for various pathologies, according to results of recently published data.

Investigators found patients who were older than 35 years had variable outcomes after arthroscopic posterior labral repair and linked chondral damage at the time of surgery with worse results in this cohort.