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Acta ortopédica mexicana
Print version ISSN 2306-4102
Abstract
CRUZ-LOPEZ, F; JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, A; ALAN BARBER, F and COBALEDA-ARISTIZABAL, AF. Biomechanical comparison of conventional double-row repair versus double row repair with the parachute configuration. Acta ortop. mex [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.2, pp.87-90. Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 2306-4102.
Introduction:
The rotator cuff tears are a very frequent condition. The rotator cuff repair is a procedure often perform by the orthopedic surgeon. There are multiple techniques and suture configurations for this type of repairs. The double row configuration is one of the most used and consider very effective for mid-size and large size rotator cuff tears. The parachute configuration for this repair is a novel technique that may be useful for mid-size and large size tears, for this repair two medial double row anchors are used and one knotless lateral anchor. Our porpoise was to compare biomechanical performance and footprint coverage of a conventional suture-bridge double-row rotator cuff repair configuration versus a double-row-parachute.
Methods:
This paper shows the biomechanical behavior on a cadaver model of the parachute configuration, and also compares this conformation with a double row in a suture-bridge fashion. Our hipothesis was that the Parachute configuration’s biomechanical performance is equivalent to the suture-bridging double-row technique.
Results:
The parachute configuration advantages show the advantage of using less anchors, which will decrease the surgical time and also the risks of using multiple hardware in the humeral head.
Keywords : Rotator cuff; repair; configuration; cadaver; test.