Inferior Clinical Outcomes Following Endoscopic Proximal Hamstring Repair in Patients With Chronic Degenerative Tears Despite the Use of Dermal Allograft Augmentation.

Purpose: To compare clinical outcomes in patients undergoing endoscopic proximal hamstring repair with and without dermal allograft augmentation.

Methods: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data was performed on patients undergoing endoscopic proximal hamstring repair (PHR) and proximal hamstring repair with dermal allograft augmentation (PHR-A) by a single surgeon between 2016 and 2023. Augmentation was utilized for cases of chronic degenerative tears (≥6 weeks from the time of initial injury) where hamstring tissue quality was deemed poor intraoperatively.

Comparable Pain Levels and Functional Outcomes With and Without the Use of Dermal Allograft Augmentation in Endoscopic Gluteus Medius Repair.

Purpose: To compare retrospectively the clinical outcomes of patients undergoing endoscopic gluteal tendon repair with and without the use of dermal allograft augmentation.

Methods: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data, single-surgeon cohort study was performed on all patients undergoing endoscopic gluteus medius repair (GMR) and GMR with augmentation (GMR-A) between April 2017 and April 2022. Dermal allograft augmentation was used in cases where intraoperative gluteus tissue quality was poor.

The impact of surgery clerkship grades on applicant competitiveness for orthopaedic surgery residency match.

Medical school clerkship grades are an important method for applicants to distinguish themselves when applying to residency programs. Given the lack of standardization among medical schools in the clerkship grading process, it has become more challenging for orthopaedic surgery residencies to ascertain the true value of surgery clerkship grades between applicants. This letter to the editor is a response to the article by Hoy et al.