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Original Article
ABSTRACT RESUMO
Objective: To evaluate the influence of partial- and full-thickness Objetivo: Avaliar a influência das lesões do terço superior do tendão
upper third subscapularis tendon tears on the functional scores subescapular nos escores funcionais de pacientes submetidos ao
of patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Methods: reparo artroscópico do manguito. Métodos: Divisão em três grupos,
Patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair were divided conforme condição do tendão subescapular: intacto; ruptura de
into three groups according to the subscapularis tendon condition: espessura parcial ou ruptura do terço superior de espessura total.
intact, partial-thickness tear, or full-thickness upper third tear. Comparamos escores funcionais. Em seguida, a influência das lesões
Functional scores were compared among groups. Second, the do bíceps e do infraespinhal nos escores foi testada através de análise
influence of biceps and infraspinatus tears on the scores was tested de regressão multivariada. Resultados: Avaliamos 307 ombros em 297
using multivariate regression analysis. Results: We evaluated 307 pacientes. Rupturas subescapulares no terço superior de espessura
shoulders in 297 patients. Full-thickness upper third subscapularis total apresentaram escores significativamente piores aos pacientes
tears presented significantly worse scores than intact tendons. com tendão intacto. Rupturas de espessura parcial apresentaram
Partial-thickness tears had scores that did not differ significantly escore sem diferença significativa em relação aos demais. Pacientes
from those of the other groups. Patients with full-thickness upper com rupturas do terço superior de espessura total apresentaram maior
third tears presented a greater rate of injured and unstable biceps taxa de lesão e instabilidade tendínea do bíceps. Análise multivariada
tendons. The multivariate analysis showed that biceps and infra- mostrou que as rupturas tendíneas do bíceps e infraespinal não influen-
spinatus tendon tears did not influence the scores or the intergroup ciaram os escores. Conclusão: Pacientes com lesão do terço superior
comparison. Conclusion: Full-thickness upper third subscapularis de espessura total do tendão do subescapular apresentaram escores
tendon tears presented worse functional scores than intact sub- funcionais piores do que pacientes com tendão intacto submetidos
scapularis tendons among patients undergoing posterosuperior ao reparo artroscópico posterossuperior do manguito. Pacientes com
rotator cuff repair. Patients with full-thickness subscapularis tears rupturas do subescapular com espessura total foram mais propensos
were more likely to suffer biceps tears, but this fact did not influence a apresentar rupturas do bíceps, sem influenciar escores funcionais.
functional scores. Level of Evidence I; Clinical randomized trial Nível de Evidência I, Estudo clínico randomizado.
Keywords: Rotator cuff, Arthroscopy, Injury . Descritores: Manguito Rotador. Artroscopia. Lesão.
Citation: Malavolta EA, Chang VYP, Castro MTBP, Andrade-Silva FB, Assunção JH , Gracitelli MEC, Ferreira Neto AA. Effect of subscapularis tendon
tears on scores of patients undergoing arthroscopic repair. Acta Ortop Bras. [online]. 2019;27(2):116-9. Available from URL: http://www.scielo.br/aob.
The study was conducted at the Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas do HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Grupo de Ombro
e Cotovelo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Correspondence: Fernando Brandao Andrade-Silva. Rua Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, 333, 3º andar, Cerqueira Cesar, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 05403-010. fernando.brandao@hc.fm.usp.br
AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS: Each author made significant individual contributions to this manuscript: EAM (0000-0003-1956-6445)*: writing the article,
revision of the article, statistical analyses, and performing the surgeries; VYPC (0000-0001-8247-6886)*: participating in the surgeries, acquisition and analy-
sis of the data, and writing the article; MTBPC (0000-0003-2492-848X)*: participating in the surgeries, acquisition and analysis of the data and writing the
article; FBAS (0000-0003-3025-1719)*: performing the surgeries, intellectual concept of the article and revision of the article; JHA (0000-0002-2566-3471)*
performing the surgeries, intellectual concept of the article and revision of the article; MECG (0000-0002-0214-9576)* performing the surgeries, intellectual
concept of the article and revision of the article; AAFN (0000-0001-5097-9542)* intellectual concept of the article and revision of the article. *ORCID (Open
Researcher and Contributor ID).
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