Open AccessDelivered growth factor therapy to improve healing after rotator cuff repair
Author(s) -
Emilie V. Cheung,
Luz Silverio,
Jeffrey Yao
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stem cells and cloning advances and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.606
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1178-6957
DOI - 10.2147/sccaa.s7359
Subject(s) - rotator cuff , medicine , tendon , surgery , bone healing , orthopedic surgery , rotator cuff injury , scaffold , biomedical engineering
Degenerative rotator cuff tears are a significant cause of shoulder pain in the aging population. Rotator cuff repair surgery may be more successful when growth factors are delivered to the repair site. This study was designed to determine the cellular processes involved in normal bone-to-tendon healing and the current approaches used for biologic augmentation of rotator cuff repair.
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