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Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
Published on: July 5, 2011
Reverse shoulder arthroplasty due to glenoid bone defects
J C Díaz Miñarro1, A Izquierdo Fernández1, F Muñoz Reyes1
1Unidad de Miembro Superior, Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía de Córdoba, Córdoba, España.
Objective:
Reverse shoulder arthroplasty is becoming a useful tool for many diseases of the shoulder. Any severe glenoid bone defect may affect the fixing of the glenoid component. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the medium-term outcomes of reverse shoulder arthroplasty associated with a glenoplasty.
Materials And Methods:
A retrospective study was conducted on 5 patients from our hospital, selected due to glenoid defects of different etiology. All of them where treated with reverse shoulder arthroplasty associated with glenoplasty with bone graft.
Results:
The minimum follow-up was one year (mean 30.4 months). All grafts were radiologically integrated, with no signs of resorption or necrosis being observed. At 12 months, the Constant score was 66.75 and the mean EVA score was 1.
Discussion:
Glenoplasty surgery is technically demanding for restoring original bone size in patients with glenoid structural defects, enabling a reverse shoulder arthroplasty to be implanted. Thus improving both the function and clinical outcomes in selected patients with glenohumeral pathology and providing them with a solution.
