BACKGROUND Several stemless shoulder implants are available on the market, but only a few studies have presented results with sufficient mid- to long-term follow-up. The present study evaluated clinical and radiologic outcomes 9 years after anatomic stemless shoulder replacement. METHODS This is a prospective cohort study evaluating the stemless shoulder prosthesis since 2005. Anatomic stemle...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to provide nationwide shoulder arthroplasty rates in Germany based on the national hospitalization file and to estimate the revision burden for shoulder arthroplasty and its determinants. METHODS We analyzed the nationwide, population-based, German diagnosis-related groups data from the years 2005 and 2006. Procedure codes and diagnosis were analyzed for e...

We evaluate our experience with arthroscopic interpositioning arthroplasty as a treatment of the young degenerative shoulder joint. Between 2007 and 2009 ten patients were treated with either a dermal allograft or a meniscal allograft. In seven patients the graft failed and within 13 months these were revised to a total shoulder arthroplasty. Three patients are still satisfied after 7 to 8 year...

UNLABELLED The study's objective is to evaluate the characteristics and problems of patients who underwent shoulder arthroplasties between July 2004 and November 2006. METHODOLOGY During the period of the study, 145 shoulder arthroplasties were performed. A prospective protocol was used for every patient; demographic, clinical and surgical procedure data were collected. All gathered data were...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to present the results of cement spacer sonication in the second stage of two-stage treatment of shoulder arthroplasty infection and to determine the rate of positive cultures in the second-stage surgery in shoulder arthroplasty and its meaning. METHODS Twenty-one patients (22 cement spacers) treated with two-stage surgery because of a shoulder arthro...

Osteoarthritis (OA) can cause severe pain and dysfunction of the shoulder. When conservative treatment fails and operative treatments such as shoulder arthroplasty and open glenohumeral resurfacing are not advisable, shoulder arthroscopy may be used to treat shoulder OA. Arthroscopic treatment of concomitant pathology in the shoulder including subacromial decompression, labral repair, capsular ...

The potential adverse effect of body mass index (BMI) on shoulder function scores after reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) has not been investigated. We conducted a study to examine outcomes of RSA performed for rotator cuff tear arthropathy (RCTA) across BMI categories (normal weight, overweight, obese). We hypothesized that, compared with normal-weight patients, obese patients would have wor...

The authors describe a step-by-step technique for anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty using transsupraspinatus arthrotomy via the enlarged transacromial approach. This technique seems ideal to ensure adequate postoperative tensional balance of the infraspinatus and the subscapularis, which is critical for the rotator cuffs to function properly and to achieve optimal arthroplasty stability. Rev...

©2006 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.88B5. 16466 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2006;88-B:562-75. Although the first shoulder arthroplasty was implanted in 1893 by the French surgeon JulesÉmile Péan, 1 the development of the procedure came in the 1950s when Neer 2 described the results using a vitallium prosthesis to treat comminuted fractures of the hea...

Degenerative changes of the shoulder are a common complication in patients after spinal cord injury. The main cause is chronic overload to the shoulder joint due to manual wheelchair propulsion and transfers. Reduced shoulder function has a significant impact on all aspects of daily life. Shoulder arthroplasty in this group of patients is a challenging procedure because of the unique demand on ...