Longer duration of operative time enhances healing metabolites and improves patient outcome after Achilles tendon rupture surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The relationship between the duration of operative time (DOT), healing response and patient outcome has not been previously investigated. An enhanced healing response related to DOT may potentiate repair processes, especially in hypovascular and sparsely metabolized musculoskeletal tissues such as tendons. This study aimed to investigate the association between DOT and the metabolic healing response, patient-reported outcome and the rate of post-operative complications after acute Achilles tendon injury.

Methods

Observational cohort, cross-sectional study with observers blinded to patient grouping. A total of two-hundred and fifty-six prospectively randomized patients (210 men, 46 women; mean age 41 years) with an acute total Achilles tendon rupture all operated on w

SUBMITTER: Svedman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6061452 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature