ArticleOrthopaedic journal of sports medicine2024
Muscle Advancement During Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair as a Treatment Option for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears.
Article in Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- All-Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Muscle Advancement With Pan Scapular Release and Using the Scapular Triangular View.Arthroscopy techniques · 2026Article
- Surgical Options for Massive Rotator Cuff Tears with Preserved Full Range of Motion in Middle-Aged Patients.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2026Review
- Outcome comparison of lower trapezius tendon transfer and arthroscopic rotator cuff tear repair using muscle advancement for massive rotator cuff tear: a systematic review.Clinics in shoulder and elbow · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: The management of irreparable rotator cuff tears presents a surgical dilemma. However, supraspinatus muscle advancement (MA) could be used to convert irreparable to reparable tears without requiring a graft. Purpose: To compare the outcomes of patients with an irreparable tear who underwent rotator cuff repair with MA with those with a reparable large to massive cuff tear who underwent rotator cuff repair. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: We enrolled 62 patients who underwent rotator cuff repair for a large to massive tear between January 2020 and May 2022. Among them, 29 patients underwent an MA procedure due to an inability to repair despite releases (MA group), whereas the other 33 patients did not require the procedure (NMA group). At 1 year postoperatively, follow-up assessments including magnetic resonance imaging were performed to evaluate group outcomes. Results: Despite there being more revision surgery cases and a poorer potential for cuff healing in the MA group, the retear rates in the MA and NMA groups were similar (31.0% vs 21.2%, respectively; Conclusion: The MA procedure for irreparable tears produced outcomes comparable with reparable tears, offering a valuable perspective on the efficiency of the procedure. The comparable but relatively high retear rates emphasize the need for further studies to compare with other treatment options for irreparable tears.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.