Table 3.
Review of surgical complications and early post-operative adverse events, surgical hip abductor tendon repair failures and revision surgeries, and any other secondary hip surgical procedures or further hip-related treatments since the primary hip abductor tendon repair surgery
| Surgical complications and early post-operative adverse events |
| Superficial wound infections (n = 3) |
| Haematoma (n = 1) |
| Deep vein thrombosis and development a pulmonary embolism (n = 1) |
| All reported complications were treated accordingly without any further issues |
| Surgical failures and revisions |
| Failures encountered within the first 12 months (n = 3)—confirmed via repeat MRI at 7, 9 and 11 months post-surgery |
| Failures encountered between 12 and 24 months (n = 4)—confirmed via repeat MRI at 13, 14, 14 and 16 months post-surgery |
| Failures encountered between 24-month and final 7–10-year follow-up (n = 2)—confirmed via repeat MRI at 4 and 6 years post-surgery |
| Reported reasons for recurrence of symptoms (and subsequently confirmed re-tear)—fall (n = 3), motor vehicle accident (n = 1), accident at the beach (n = 1), unknown (n = 4) |
| At the time of 7–10-year follow-up, 8 (of 9) observed surgical failures had undergone revision surgery (1 patient had not progressed towards revision surgery, though she had undergone augmented hip abductor tendon repair in the current study following failed hip abductor tendon repair previously via a non-augmented approach) |
| Further treatments and/or surgical procedures on ipsilateral hip |
| Corticosteroid injection into bursa (n = 3) or into hip joint (n = 1) |
| Total hip arthroplasty (n = 3)—at 6, 6 and 7 years following primary hip abductor tendon repair (all patients retained in 7–10-year review) |
| Other (n = 2) |
| One patient underwent proximal hamstring tendon repair following a secondary incident 5 years after her primary hip abductor tendon repair |
| One patient had a fall and sustained fractured neck of femur with subsequent fixation |
| Apart from the patient who had the fall and fractured her neck of femur, all other patients were retained in the 7–10-year review |