Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in Patients Who Exceeded Their Life-expectancy: a Retrospective Study

Bürgerspital Solothurn

Status: Completed

Conditions: Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Treatments: Procedure: Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (RTSA)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04807322

RTSA in very old patients

Details and patient eligibility

About

Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) has become an established treatment for cuff arthropathy, severe osteoarthritis and in certain fracture cases. Due to the increasingly aging population, patients who have already exceeded their life-expectancy pose a significant challenge to the shoulder surgeon. Therefore, we wanted to investigate patient demographics, hospital stay length, complication rate functional outcome, patient reported outcome scores and mortality retrospectively for patients, who were older than 83 years at time of implantation of a RTSA.

Full description

This is a retrospective single institution study. All patients older than 83 years who received a reverse shoulder arthroplasty from 2008 until 2019 are included. Elective cases are compared to fracture cases (patient demographics, length of hospital stay, complication rate, functional outcome, patient reported outcome scores and mortality).

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 83+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 83 years at time of surgery
• Patients who received a reverse total shoulder arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Patients younger than 83 years at time of surgery

Trial design

110 participants in 2 patient groups

Elective cases

Description:

Patients, who received a RTSA for degenerative reasons like cuff arthropathy or osteoarthritis

Treatment:

Procedure: Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (RTSA)

Fracture cases

Description:

Patients, who received a RTSA for a proximal humerus fracture

Treatment:

Procedure: Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (RTSA)