Postoperative Outcomes Following Bridging Reconstruction for Large to Massive Rotator Cuff Tears Using Two Different Dermal Allografts: A Retrospective Cohort Comparison Study
Abrahim Chidiac, Aleksandra Budarick, Jiaxin Hu, Devan Pancura, Reza Ojaghi, Ivan Wong · 2026
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Abrahim Chidiac leads a 2026 retrospective cohort comparison of two dermal allografts used in bridging reconstruction for large to massive rotator cuff tears. Rotator cuff tears damage the shoulder tendons, and bridging uses a skin-derived graft as a scaffold when direct repair is not possible. The study compared GraftJacket in forty-nine patients with AlloPatch in thirty-seven. Healing was judged by MRI, and function by a standard shoulder questionnaire, the WORC index.
The AlloPatch group started with worse muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration, and had more additional repairs. Graft healing did not differ significantly, at seventy-six percent for AlloPatch and sixty-nine percent for GraftJacket. Both groups improved their WORC scores significantly after surgery, with no between-group difference. AlloPatch patients gained more shoulder interval space on imaging, while GraftJacket patients had higher structural integrity grades. The authors call the two grafts similarly effective.
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| CREATOR | Abrahim Chidiac, Aleksandra Budarick, Jiaxin Hu, Devan Pancura, Reza Ojaghi, Ivan Wong |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34353 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |