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PRP in Rotator Cuff Healing

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Rotator cuff retears may occur after open or arthroscopic repair. Galatz et al. [1] reported a retear rate as high as 94 %. Failures have been attributed to different causes: poor quality of repaired tendon, pullout of the suture anchors, suture breakage, precocious, and inappropriate rehabilitation program [2, 3]. Liem et al. [4] observed that higher degrees of muscular atrophy and fatty infiltration preoperatively are associated with recurrence of the tear as well as progression of fatty infiltration and an inferior clinical result.

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Gumina, S. (2017). PRP in Rotator Cuff Healing. In: Gumina, S. (eds) Rotator Cuff Tear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33355-7_43

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