Role of Delay Between Injury and Surgery on the Outcomes of Rotator Cuff Repair: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Outcomes of rotator cuff repair (RCR) are influenced by several well-described factors, but the role of delay from injury to surgery on the outcomes is not clear.

Purpose: To assess the role of delay to surgery on the outcomes of RCR in the literature.

Study Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis; Level of evidence, 4.

Clinical outcome and structural integrity of all-arthroscopic repair of degenerative subscapularis tendon tears.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of all-arthroscopic repair of degenerative subscapularis tendon tears and post-operative structural integrity using magnetic resonance imaging with a short-term follow-up.

Methods: Twenty-one patients were treated all-arthroscopically for a full-thickness degenerative subscapularis tendon tear. Median patient age was 55 years (range, 41-69).

Arthroscopic side-to-side repair of massive and contracted rotator cuff tears using a single uninterrupted suture: the shoestring bridge technique.

Purpose: This study was performed to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a new side-to-side repair technique for massive rotator cuff tears using a single uninterrupted suture in the configuration of a shoestring in a medial-to-lateral progression.

Methods: Thirty-one consecutive patients with a mean age of 59 years (SD, 4.7 years) had primary arthroscopic repair of their massive, U-shaped, contracted supraspinatus and infraspinatus tear by the shoestring bridge technique.