SynthesisKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2026
Mid- to long-term outcomes of capsular management in hip arthroscopy for FAIS: A multilevel meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Agreement between ChatGPT and human-derived multilevel meta-analyses: a reproducibility study across clinical evidence syntheses.BMC medical research methodology · 2026Pooled it
- Mid- to long-term outcomes of capsular management in hip arthroscopy for FAIS: A multilevel meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2026Pooled it
- Gait speed recovery after iliofemoral ligament-preserving hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement: associations with early postoperative gait kinematics.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Pre-operative radiological grading and inflammatory mediators as candidate biomarkers of early joint degeneration in patients with femoroacetabular impingement.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo compare mid- to long-term outcomes of the three major capsular management strategies-capsule preserved (CP), capsule repaired (CR) and capsule unrepaired (CU)-following hip arthroscopy (HAS) for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS).
methodsA systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, and Epistemonikos for studies published up to 31 May 2025. Studies were eligible if they reported ≥2-year outcomes after HAS with clearly described capsular techniques. Outcomes included the modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS), Hip Outcome Score-Activities of Daily Living (HOS-ADL) and Sports Subscale (HOS-SSS) and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain. Multilevel meta-analyses were performed using random-effects models with Hartung-Knapp adjustment. Failure-related outcomes (complications, reoperations, total hip arthroplasty [THA] conversions) were inconsistently reported across studies and could only be summarised descriptively.
resultsSeven studies with a total of 948 patients were included. Pooled mean mHHS was 81.14 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 77.72-84.56), with CP: 84.90, CR: 80.66 and CU: 80.25 (p = 0.67). HOS-ADL pooled mean was 87.94 (95% CI: 84.79-91.09), with CP: 89.30, CR: 87.36, CU: 88.31 (p = 0.90). HOS-SSS pooled mean was 78.59 (95% CI: 72.69-84.48), with CP: 75.70, CR: 78.89, CU: 80.22 (p = 0.84). VAS pooled mean was 2.42 (95% CI: 2.08-2.77), with CP: 2.46, CR: 2.27, CU: 2.76 (p = 0.51). No statistically significant subgroup differences were detected. CR showed the highest cumulative numbers of reoperations and THA conversions, whereas CP and CU demonstrated lower but heterogeneous event counts.
conclusionCP, CR and CU demonstrated comparable mid- to long-term patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) outcomes following HAS for FAIS. Failure-related events varied descriptively across techniques, but inconsistent reporting prevented comparative survivorship assessment. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of predominantly Level III studies, with additional contributions from Level I and II studies.
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.