Editorial Commentary: Rotator Cuff Repair in Patients With Diabetes: Stricter Glycemic Control for the First 6 Months Is Associated With Better Healing.

Chalmers, Peter N; Joyce, Christopher D · Arthroscopy · 2023

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Retear rates after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair continue to be unacceptably high. Of the known risk factors for failure of rotator cuff repair, many are nonmodifiable. Poor glycemic control in patients with diabetes in the first 3 to 6 months after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair is associated with a lower healing rate. This represents a modifiable risk factor that we should routinely address in patients postoperative rotator cuff repair.

Medical subject headings

Anatomy