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Arthroscopes are minimally invasive surgical instruments used to visualize and examine the interior of a joint.
They consist of a small camera attached to a thin, flexible tube that can be inserted into the joint through a small incision.
Arthroscopes allow orthopedic surgeons to diagnose and treat a variety of joint conditions, such as torn ligaments, cartilage damage, and joint inflammation.
This advanced technology enhances the accuracy and reproducibility of arthroscopic procedures, improving patient outcomes and streamlining the research process.
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Patients with upper-extremity musculoskeletal conditions planned for surgical treatment at an orthopedic department were considered for inclusion in this study. Exclusion criteria were age below 18 years, symptom duration of less than 2 months, or inability to complete questionnaires due to cognitive impairment or language difficulties. The DASH was completed preoperatively by 118 consecutive eligible patients[7 (link)]. Postoperatively, 9 (8%) of the patients did not respond and the remaining 109 patients completed the DASH after a minimum followup time of 6 months (Table 1). The 2 largest diagnostic groups comprised patients who had undergone arthroscopic acromioplasty because of subacromial impingement and open carpal tunnel release because of carpal tunnel syndrome. Complete followup could be obtained for all patients in these 2 subgroups (Table 2).
The followup questionnaire also included an item regarding change in health status after surgery. It inquired about the status of the operated arm compared to its status preoperatively (5 response options: much better, somewhat better, unchanged, somewhat worse, much worse). This item was accidentally missing in the initially mailed questionnaires and was therefore only completed by the last 83 participants.
Publication 2003
Arthroscopes Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Diagnosis Disorders, Cognitive Musculoskeletal Diseases Operative Surgical Procedures Patients Shoulder Impingement Syndrome Upper Extremity
Inclusion criteria for patients enrolled in the study include all patients with ACL deficiency evaluated at the clinic between the ages of 12 and 65 years who are scheduled to have a revision ACL reconstruction by a participating (MARS study group) surgeon. All participants must have undergone an ACL reconstruction in the past, and are currently identified as having experienced failure of their ACL reconstruction, as defined by the surgeon by either MRI, knee laxity (>5 mm side-to-side difference on arthrometer testing), a positive pivot shift or Lachman test, functional instability, and/or by arthroscopic confirmation. Patients with concomitant injuries to the medial and lateral collateral ligaments, posterior cruciate ligament, or posterolateral complex are also included. Exclusion criteria for patients for the study were patients with graft failure secondary to prior intra-articular infection, arthrofibrosis, or complex regional pain syndrome. Patients unwilling or unable to complete their repeat questionnaire 2 years after their initial visit are also excluded. Surgeon enrollment logs demonstrate that 75% of eligible patients agreed to participate.
Publication 2010
Arthroscopes Complex Regional Pain Syndromes External Lateral Ligament Grafts Injuries Joints Knee Patients Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructive Surgical Procedures Secondary Infections Surgeons
This report is based on an analysis of MRI data that were obtained as part of a larger prospective cohort study with a nested case-control analysis designed to develop a comprehensive multivariate risk model for noncontact ACL injuries.6 (link),16 (link),31 (link) The larger study used a design that selected 3 matched control participants for each ACL-injured patient; however, the costs associated with MRI acquisition only permitted the selection of 1 control participant per ACL-injured patient for the current report. The 4-year study began in the fall 2008 sports season and involved athletes from 36 institutions (28 high schools and 8 colleges). Those responsible for providing medical care to the sports teams located at these institutions, such as licensed athletic trainers and physicians, identified and approached athletes about participation when an ACL injury was suspected. To be included, the ACL-injured patients and matched control participants were those in organized athletics. Patients injured while participating in their sport had to have suffered their first ACL injury (to either limb) that was confirmed by arthroscopic visualization at the time of surgery. A noncontact ACL injury was defined as an event occurring with no direct contact to the ACL-injured knee from another athlete, the ground, or other object. This was determined by the person responsible for medical care at the institution where the injury occurred and was confirmed by the injured patient. Injured patients were matched to control participants who were selected from the same team and were the same sex and age. The Committee on Human Research of the Medical Sciences Review Board at our institution approved this study. All participants and/or their legal guardians provided signed informed consent before participation.
Publication 2014
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Arthroscopes Athletes Homo sapiens Injuries Knee Legal Guardians Patients Physicians
Between September 2006 and January 2007, a consecutive series of 175 patients undergoing arthroscopy for painful shoulder were reviewed prospectively. Their average age was 53 years (range 17-83). There were 97 males and 78 females. Those with either a previous fracture or surgery to the ipsilateral shoulder were excluded. The duration of symptoms was noted. All patients were examined, preoperatively and independently by two senior orthopedic surgeons blinded to the preoperative diagnosis using four tests. These were the lateral Jobe test, the Jobe supraspinatus test, strength in external rotation when compared to the normal side, and impingement testing. A consensus review was taken and the clinical tests were then validated postoperatively against the arthroscopic findings. The final results were assessed for sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value.
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Publication 2010
Arthroscopes Arthroscopy Diagnosis Females Fracture, Bone Hypersensitivity Males Operative Surgical Procedures Orthopedic Surgeons Patients Shoulder Shoulder Pain Supraspinatus
Patients were recruited from the Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent's University Hospital. Patients with RA and PsA, fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology28 (link) and Classification of Psoriatic Arthritis criteria,29 (link) respectively, were recruited. Normal synovium was obtained from two healthy controls. All participants gave fully informed consent. Patients had active disease despite disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, had at least one inflamed knee joint and were due to commence biological treatment. Clinical and laboratory assessment included tender and swollen joint count, rheumatoid factor, anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibody, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C reactive protein (CRP) and global health visual analogue scale (VAS) obtained on the same day prior to arthroscopy.
Arthroscopy of the inflamed knee was performed under local anaesthetic, using a 2.7 mm needle arthroscope (Richard Wolf, Illinois, USA) and macroscopic synovitis, vascularity and chondropathy were scored on a VAS (0–100 mm) as previously described.30 (link) ST biopsies were obtained by 2 mm grasping forceps, and subsequently embedded in optimal cutting temperature (OCT) compound and paraffin. Matching serum and SF was collected immediately before arthroscopy and stored at -80°C. Oxygen partial pressure was measured in the ST lining using a LICOX combined pO2 and temperature probe (Integra Life Sciences, Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA) under direct visualisation as recently described26 27 (supplementary figure 1A,B).
Publication 2010
Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic Antirheumatic Drugs, Disease-Modifying Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthroscopes Arthroscopy Biopharmaceuticals Biopsy Blood Vessel Cartilage Diseases C Reactive Protein cyclic citrullinated peptide Forceps Joints Knee Joint Local Anesthetics Needles Oxygen Paraffin Partial Pressure Patients Rheumatoid Factor Sedimentation Rates, Erythrocyte Serum Synovial Membrane Synovitis Visual Analog Pain Scale Wolves

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All patients underwent the shoulder arthroscopic surgery with the same surgical technique and all surgeries were performed by the same surgeons. After receiving general anesthesia combined with interscalene plexus block, all patients were placed in the lateral decubitus position. Normal saline containing epinephrine (1 mg/3 L) was used for intra-articular irrigation. A standardized arthroscopic approach for surgery was used with all patients.
First, an arthroscopic intra-articular examination was performed in all cases to probe whether the patients had other intra-articular lesions. We used 1 to 2 suture anchors (4.5 mm, TWINFIX Ultra PK Suture Anchor, Smith & Nephew) to repair the subscapularis if the subscapularis tendon was torn and recored the type of subscapularis tendon tears. Meanwhile, we performed a biceps tenotomy if the patients had a superior labrum anterior and posterior (SLAP) lesion or degenerative biceps tendon.
Then, via subacromial space arthroscopic vision, we performed acromiolpasty in cases with subacromial impingement syndorme and recored the type of postero-superior cuff tears. The double-row suture-bridge technique was used to repair the cuff tears (4.5 mm, Healix Healix Anchor System, Depuy and 4.5 mm, TWINFIX Ultra PK Suture Anchor, Smith & Nephew). Irreparable type C4 postero-superior cuff tears were eliminated from this study.
At the end of the operation, using a 14G puncture needle, 10 ml of TXA (100 mg/ml) or normal saline was injected into the shoulder joint through a posterior approach.
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Publication 2023
Arthroscopes Arthroscopic Surgical Procedures Epinephrine General Anesthesia Joints Laceration Needles Normal Saline Patients Punctures Shoulder Shoulder Impingement Syndrome Shoulder Joint Subscapularis Surgeons Suture Anchors Suture Techniques Tears Tendons Tenotomy Vision
This retrospective study included patients with RCTs who underwent shoulder arthroscopic surgery in Taizhou hospital, China, between January 2018 and December 2020. Non-probability sampling was used for this study. This retrospective study included all eligible patients with RCTs who underwent shoulder arthroscopic surgery in Taizhou hospital, China, between January 2018 and December 2020. Intra-articular TXA has been routinely administrated since March 2019 (TXA group), while patients before March 2019 were only administered 10 ml of saline (non-TXA group). Therefore, the patients treated between January 2018 and February 2019 were included in the non-TXA group, and those treated from March 2019 to December 2020 were included in the TXA group. Approval of Taizhou hospital ethics committee was obtained before the commencement of this study (K20220713). The informed consent was waived by the ethics committee due to the retrospective nature of the study.
Included patients underwent ARCR after being diagnosed with full-thickness RCTs of the postero-superior cuff by MR examination. Patients with biceps tendon and subscapularis injury were also included in this study. All patients received conservative treatment for more than 3 months without symptom relief. The exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) labral pathology requiring repair; (2) acute traumatic rotator cuff tears; (3) anticoagulation therapy before surgery; (4) abnormal coagulation profile (prothrombin time or activated partial thromboplastin time) before surgery; (5) renal or liver disorders; (6) irreparable massive rotator cuff tear.
To our knowledge, no studies have been published providing recommendations on the optimal intra-articular TXA dosage specifically for shoulder arthroscopic surgery. However, Chiang et al. (7 (link)) used the same arthroscopic technique to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament. In this study, a 10 ml (concentration:100 mg/ml) of intra-articular injection of TXA was found to reduce postoperative intra-articular bleeding during the first 24 h post-surgery. In addition, it also reduced the pain and the hemarthrosis severity in the early postoperative period. No systemic side effects or toxicity requiring aspiration was noted during the follow-up period. Therefore, we decided to apply the same dosage of TXA in our study.
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Publication 2023
Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time Anterior Cruciate Ligament Arthroscopes Arthroscopic Surgical Procedures Conservative Treatment Ethics Committees Ethics Committees, Clinical Hemarthrosis Injuries Intra-Articular Injections Joints Kidney Liver Diseases Operative Surgical Procedures Pain Patients Saline Solution Shoulder Subscapularis Tendons Tests, Blood Coagulation Therapeutics Times, Prothrombin
The study protocol was approved by our institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from all participants. Of the 44 patients who underwent revision arthroscopic labral repair for failed primary arthroscopic Bankart repair between April 2013 and January 2020 at our institution, we enrolled patients who underwent surgery in which only all-suture anchors were used. Included in the study were patients (1) who had undergone arthroscopic Bankart repair with suture anchors as the primary operation; (2) with anterior glenoid bone loss of <15% at the time of revision surgery30 (link)
; (3) with residual instability and frank redislocation history, observed even after a sufficient rehabilitation period after primary arthroscopic Bankart repair; (4) who underwent revision surgery with a simple-suture technique with a single type of all-suture anchor; and (5) who had at least 2 years of clinical follow-up data. Patients were excluded for the following reasons: (1) only superior labral anterior-posterior (SLAP) or posterior labral lesions had been repaired (ie, no Bankart repair) in the primary operation; (2) concomitant procedures, including biceps tenodesis, panlabral repair, or rotator cuff repair, were performed during the primary Bankart repair; (3) patients had large bony Bankart lesions requiring bone healing by proper fixation of the fragment; (4) remplissage had been performed to engage Hill-Sachs lesions during the revision surgery; (5) patients had a history of unresolved brachial plexus injuries or uncontrolled seizures; or (6) shoulder instability was predominantly multidirectional with generalized ligament hyperlaxity.15 (link)
Publication 2023
Arthroscopes Bankart Fractures Bones Ethics Committees, Research Hill-Sachs Lesion Injuries Ligaments Osteopenia Patients Plexus, Brachial Rehabilitation Repeat Surgery Rotator Cuff Seizures Shoulder Suture Anchors Suture Techniques Tenodesis
All patients returned for follow-up assessments at 3, 6, and 12 months and then yearly. Two shoulder surgeons who did not directly participate in the surgical operation independently evaluated patients’ characteristics and clinical results, including shoulder ROM, visual analog scale (VAS), Rowe score, and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, preoperatively and postoperatively at the last visit. The clinical statuses and surgical records of the patients in this study before primary arthroscopic Bankart repair, and the follow-up progress after surgery, were reviewed and recorded. Surgical failure was defined as cases in which the patient complained of nontraumatic redislocation or subluxation and symptomatic instability after surgery that was severe enough to consider revision surgery.
The presence of bony Bankart lesions or rim fractures was also recorded. Labral lesions were divided into 3 parts according to their location: the superior labrum included the 1- to 11-o’clock area, the anteroinferior labrum included the 2- to 6-o’clock area, and the posterior labrum included the 6- to 11-o’clock area (Figure 2). From the anteroposterior view, of the most recent postoperative radiographs, glenohumeral joint arthrosis was identified based on the presence of osteophytes in the inferior glenoid or humeral head or joint space narrowing corresponding to stage 1 commonly described in the Samilson-Prieto classification by a single independent radiologist.12 (link),16 (link)
Publication 2023
Arthropathy Arthroscopes Bankart Fractures Elbow Fracture, Bone Humerus Head Joints Joint Subluxations Operative Surgical Procedures Osteophyte Patients Radiologist Repeat Surgery Shoulder Shoulder Joint Surgeons Visual Analog Pain Scale X-Rays, Diagnostic
A single surgeon (S.-J.S.) performed revision arthroscopic labral repair on patients in the lateral decubitus position under general anesthesia. After penetrating sufficient capsulolabral tissue using a suture hook, the anterior capsulolabral complex was restored by the simple suture technique using single-loaded all-suture anchors (1.3-mm FiberTak; Arthrex). Without decortication on the glenoid rim from 3 o’clock to 6 o’clock, the anchors were inserted at intervals of 5 to 7 mm (Figure 1). When a SLAP lesion was observed, 1 or 2 all-suture anchors were inserted to repair the lesion. For posterior labral tears requiring repair, all-suture anchors were inserted according to the extent of the posterior labral tear.
The same postoperative rehabilitation protocol was applied to all patients. Shoulder immobilization supported by an abduction brace was prescribed for the first 4 weeks. At the beginning of the fifth week, passive range of motion (ROM) and active-assisted exercises were encouraged after discontinuation of the immobilization. Shoulder muscle strengthening exercises were allowed after 8 weeks postoperatively. Return to sports was allowed 6 months postoperatively when shoulder ROM and strength had been recovered without recurrent instability.
Publication 2023
Arthroscopes Braces Cerebral Decortication General Anesthesia Immobilization Laceration Muscle Tissue Passive Range of Motion Patients Rehabilitation Shoulder Surgeons Suture Anchors Sutures Suture Techniques Tears Tissues

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More about "Arthroscopes"

Arthroscopes are a cutting-edge surgical instrument used in minimally invasive procedures to visually examine and diagnose issues within the interior of a joint.
Consisting of a small camera attached to a flexible, thin tube, arthroscopes can be inserted through a small incision to provide orthopedic surgeons with a clear view of the joint's structures, including ligaments, cartilage, and any inflammation or damage.
This advanced arthroscopic technology has revolutionized the field of joint care, enhancing the accuracy and consistency of procedures while improving patient outcomes.
By leveraging arthroscopic techniques, surgeons can now more precisely identify and treat a variety of conditions, such as torn ligaments, cartilage issues, and joint inflammation.
The power of arthroscopes extends beyond just diagnosis - they also enable surgeons to perform delicate, minimally invasive repairs and treatments right within the joint itself.
Innovative tools like the TightRope, Fast-Fix, and 2.7 mm arthroscope allow for precise, targeted interventions that minimize scarring and recovery time for patients.
Researchers and medical professionals rely on arthroscopic equipment and procedures to enhance the reproducibility and accuracy of their studies.
AI-driven optimization tools, like those offered by PubCompare.ai, help researchers quickly locate the best protocols from literature, preprints, and patents, streamlining the research process and ensuring optimal results.
Whether you're a surgeon, researcher, or simply someone interested in the latest advancements in joint care, understanding the capabilities of arthroscopes and the supporting technologies that enable their use is crucial.
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