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Re-rupture or Non-healing? Factors Determining an Unsuccessful Repair

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The prevalence of rotator cuff tears increases with age, and many patients undergo surgical repair. In the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of procedures. Despite new technology and a better understanding of rotator cuff biomechanics, structural failure after rotator cuff repair still occurs. Although some studies have reported good clinical outcomes despite failures, rotator cuff retears are commonly correlated with poorer clinical outcomes and decreased shoulder function. There have been numerous studies regarding prognostic factors for rotator cuff healing after surgical repair. Age, tear size, fatty degeneration and atrophy, muscle tendon retraction, workers compensation, compliance with rehabilitation, smoking, manual workers, type of repair, and the use of orthobiologics have been suggested as important factors for rotator cuff healing.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Berte Bøe

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  1. Hospital das Forças Armadas and Hospital da Luz, Porto, Portugal

    Nuno Sampaio Gomes

  2. Department of Traumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  3. ATOS Klinik München, Deutsches Schulterzentrum, München, Bayern, Germany

    Frank Martetschläger

  4. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Giuseppe Milano

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Bøe, B. (2020). Re-rupture or Non-healing? Factors Determining an Unsuccessful Repair. In: Sampaio Gomes, N., Kovačič, L., Martetschläger, F., Milano, G. (eds) Massive and Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61162-3_4

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