Rotator Cuff Repair with Knotless All-Suture Medial Row Anchors and Biceps Autograft Augmentation

Overview

Journal Arthrosc Tech

Publisher Elsevier

Date 2023 Sep 1

PMID 37654888

Authors

Jeffrey D Hassebrock

Timothy P McCarthy

Stephen M Sylvia

Daniel J Stokes

Kevin K Shinsako

John M Tokish

Rachel M Frank

Affiliations

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Abstract

Incomplete healing and/or functional failure following rotator cuff tear repair remains a challenging problem for both patients and surgeons. Augmentation strategies are growing to increase healing through biologic and mechanical mechanisms to improve functional results after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. The majority of currently described augmentation techniques use allograft tissue. An alternative, low-cost, autograft option for augmentation is the use of the long head of biceps tendon autograft as a free functional graft. Here, we describe the use of autograft biceps tendon as a viable option for augmentation of double-row rotator cuff repair with knotless all-suture suture anchors.

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