CHICAGO — Although patients with recurrent anterior shoulder instability experienced high levels of satisfaction, return to sport and improvement in clinical outcomes after glenoid reconstruction with either distal tibia allograft or a latarjet procedure, results presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed latarjet led to better return to contact sports.

Gregory P. Nicholson, MD, and colleagues matched patients with recurrent anterior shoulder instability undergoing distal tibia allograft with patients undergoing latarjet by age, BMI, number of previous procedures before the index procedure and participation in sports. Researchers evaluated preoperative 3-D reconstructions of CT scans for glenoid bone loss, glenoid track and humeral bone loss, and patients completed a detailed sports survey.