Similar Rates of Survivorship and Marginal Clinical Impact of Routine Interportal Capsular Repair Versus No Repair at 5 Years After Arthroscopic Correction of Femoroacetabular Impingement
Regardless of whether the interportal capsulotomy is routinely repaired as part of the arthroscopic correction of FAI, there is significant and similar improvement in measures of pain, activity level, and generalized well-being at 5 years postoperatively relative to baseline scores. In this study, routinely repairing the capsule makes no difference to survivorship at minimum 5 years post-HA, with low failure rates at <1% in both groups, and marginal differences in PROMs, and achievability of MCID and SCB thresholds of clinically important improvement observed between groups.
