Publications by authors named "L Kavaja"
Background: Surgery for rotator cuff disease is usually used after non-operative interventions have failed, although our Cochrane Review, first published in 2007, found that there was uncertain clinical benefit following subacromial decompression surgery.
Objectives: To synthesise the available evidence of the benefits and harms of subacromial decompression surgery compared with placebo, no intervention or non-surgical interventions in people with rotator cuff disease (excluding full thickness rotator cuff tears).
Search Methods: We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, Clinicaltrials.
Objective: To determine the benefits and harms of subacromial decompression surgery in adult patients with subacromial pain syndrome lasting for more than 3 months.
Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.
Main Outcome Measures: Pain, physical function and health-related quality of life.
Objective: To review and compare treatments (1) after primary traumatic shoulder dislocation aimed at minimising the risk of chronic shoulder instability and (2) for chronic post-traumatic shoulder instability.
Design: Intervention systematic review with random effects network meta-analysis and direct comparison meta-analyses.
Data Sources: Electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, Cochrane Clinical Trials Register, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, Ovid MEDLINE Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily, DARE, HTA, NHSEED, Web of Science) and reference lists were searched from inception to 15 January 2018.
Background And Aims: Shoulder capsular surgery is nowadays usually performed arthroscopically, and the proportion of arthroscopic method has rapidly increased during the last two decades. We assessed the incidence of shoulder capsular surgery procedures in Finland between 1999 and 2008.
Material And Methods: We gathered the shoulder capsular surgery procedures for all kinds of shoulder instability in Finland between 1999 and 2008 from National Hospital Discharge Register and limited the patient material to include only certain diagnosis (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition) and Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee procedure code combinations.
Hypothesis: The purpose of the study was to establish radiologic and clinical occurrence of glenohumeral arthrosis after arthroscopic Bankart repair.
Materials And Methods: Between January 1994 and December 1998, an arthroscopic Bankart repair was performed in 187 patients at our institution. We were able to assess clinical and radiologic glenohumeral arthrosis in 72 of the 101 patients who met the inclusion criteria (74 shoulders) (71%) after a 13-year follow-up.