These authors performed a prospective, randomized, single-blinded study of 76 patients divided into 2 randomized groups, a treatment group having arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with Platelet-rich plasma in fibrin matrix (RPFM).
The control group did not receive the PRPFM.
The Simple Shoulder improved from 45% to 96% in the control group and from 49% to 96% in the PRPFM group.
Strength of the supraspinatus at 24 months by dynamometer testing was 99.8% in the control group and 96.3% in the PRPFM group.
Retears by MRI at 6 months occurred at a rate of 19% for the controls and 7.4% for the PRPFM technique at 6 months.
None of these results showed a statistically significant benefit of PRPFM.
Comment: The cost of the PRPFM is not presented in this paper.
It would be of interest for the authors to do a sample size calculation to determine how many subjects would be necessary to detect a possible significant difference in retear rate.
It would also be of interest to compare the SST scores of the shoulders with and without retears.
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It would also be of interest to compare the SST scores of the shoulders with and without retears.
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