Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty in obese patients.

Purpose: To determine function and complications after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) in obese patients compared with a control group of nonobese patients.

Methods: Between 2005 and 2011, we performed 76 RTSAs in 17 obese, 36 overweight, and 23 normal weight patients, based on World Health Organization body mass index classification. We reviewed the charts for age, sex, body mass index, date of surgery, type of implant, type of incision, length of stay, comorbidities, surgical time, blood loss, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, shoulder motion, scapular notching, and postoperative complications.

Treatment of pertrochanteric fractures (OTA 31-A1 and A2): long versus short cephalomedullary nailing.

Objectives: To retrospectively compare the clinical outcomes in patients with pertrochanteric femur fractures without subtrochanteric extension (OTA 31-A1 and A2) after treatment with short or long cephalomedullary nails.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Academic level I trauma center.