Table 3.
Predictive factors for sensory recovery following nerve repair
| Author and year | Positive predictive factors for sensory recovery | Factors with no impact on sensory recovery |
| Shaffer and Cleveland 195032 | Level of injury | Timing of repair |
| Poppen et al 197944 | Age<20 | Timing of repair, injury severity |
| Young et al 198147 | Age<20<40 | |
| Mailänder et al 198843 | Age<10…<60, injury severity Experience level of surgeon |
Injury mechanism |
| Altissimi et al 199139 | Age<10<40 | Digital artery injury, injury mechanism |
| Chaise et al 199325 | Age | |
| Kallio 199341 | Age<15<40 Timing of repair<3 months<12 months |
Level of injury, injury mechanism |
| Al-Ghazal et al 199438 | Age<12, smoking status (favouring non-smokers) Injury mechanism |
Injury severity |
| Elias et al 199426 | Age<40, injury mechanism, timing of repair Experience level of surgeon |
Injury severity, digital artery injury |
| Vertruyen et al 199445 | Age<30, injury severity | |
| Efstathopoulos et al 199531 | Age<10 <40 | |
| Tadjalli et al 199527 | Injury severity (score, combining injury mechanism, severity and other factors) | |
| Wang et al 199646 | Age<40, injury mechanism | |
| Cheng et al 200140 | Age, early sensory re-education | |
| Hohendorff et al 20093 | Smoking status, injury mechanism, Digital artery repair | |
| Lohmeyer et al 20094 | Age<20 |
Injury severity, smoking status Systemic disease for example, diabetes |
| Fakin et al 20162 | Experience level of surgeon |
Smoking status, age (study used adults only) Injury mechanism, digital artery injury Postoperative immobilisation |
Factors in italics variously described as ‘predictive’ and ‘not predictive’ across different papers.