Patients with diabetes mellitus experience poorer outcomes after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.

ABSTRACT:

Hypothesis

The purpose of this study was to identify potential differences using validated clinical outcome instruments between patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR).

Methods

Six-hundred eighty-four patients (32 with and 652 without DM) who underwent arthroscopic RCR were prospectively followed using the visual analog pain scale, Simple Shoulder Test, Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons score, and Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (mental and physical component scores) preoperatively and at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months postoperatively.

Results

Patients with DM experienced significantly more pain (P = .0172) and had lower Simple Shoulder Test (P = .0458) and Americ

SUBMITTER: Sayegh ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811388 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature