Useful Functional Outcome Can Be Achieved After Motor Nerve Transfers in Management of the Paralytic Hand. An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nerve transfers have demonstrated encouraging outcomes in peripheral nerve reconstructions compared with the conventional direct repair or grafting.

Questions/purposes

We aimed to identify whether the patient's demographics, delay to surgery, degree of loss of grip and pinch strengths, mechanism of injury, and compliance to hand therapy have an impact on the functional outcome of motor nerve transfers in patients with paralytic hand.

Methods

Fifty-five patients with a mean age of 31.05 (18-48) years with complete isolated high injuries of radial, ulnar, and median nerves, who underwent motor nerve transfers, were reviewed. The outcome was assessed using the Medical Research Council (MRC) scale and measurement of grip and pinch strengths of the hand at minim

SUBMITTER: Sallam AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4733688 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature