| Literature DB >> 28376756 |
Stefan Moosmayer1, Ole Marius Ekeberg2, Hanna Bjørnsson Hallgren3, Ingar Heier4, Synnøve Kvalheim5, Jesper Blomquist6, Are Hugo Pripp7, Nils Gunnar Juel5, Stein Harald Kjellevold8, Jens Ivar Brox5.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: For the treatment of calcific tendinitis of the shoulder a variety of treatment regimes exist. Commonly used treatment measures include medication with oral analgesics, corticosteroid injections, extracorporeal shockwave therapy, ultrasound guided needling and lavage, and surgical treatment. Earlier cohort studies suggest that patients may benefit from these treatments, but there are few randomized studies and conflicting evidence about the effectiveness of the various treatments. In the present study we aim to compare the effectiveness of ultrasound guided needling and lavage (barbotage) together with a steroid injection to sham barbotage with and without an additional steroid injection.Entities:
Keywords: Barbotage; Calcific tendinitis; Corticosteroids; Placebo; Sham treatment; Ultrasound guided lavage
Mesh:
Year: 2017 PMID: 28376756 PMCID: PMC5379547 DOI: 10.1186/s12891-017-1501-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Musculoskelet Disord ISSN: 1471-2474 Impact factor: 2.362
Fig. 1Patient flow through the study
Inclusion criteria
| Age of 30 years or older | |
| 3 months or more of shoulder pain | |
| Moderate to severe pain localized on the top and/or lateral side of the shoulder, exaggerated by activities above shoulder level | |
| Pain at night when lying on the affected shoulder | |
| A painful arc [ | |
| A positive Hawkin’s test [ | |
| A finding of one or more calcifications ≥5 mm in size on a standard anterior posterior radiograph, localized proximally to the greater tubercle, taken not more than 4 weeks prior to the intervention | |
| A sonographic finding of one or more calcifications ≥5 mm in size on the short or long axis view, localized in the supraspinatus or infraspinatus tendon | |
| A morphological radiographic appearance of Molé type A, B or C [ | |
| The ability to understand written and spoken Norwegian (Swedish) | |
| An existing expected cooperation of the patient for the treatment and the follow-up |
Exclusion criteria
| The presence of clinical and radiological signs of a recent spontaneous release of the calcific deposit such as a sudden change in size or density of the deposit on ultrasound together with an acute onset of extreme shoulder pain |
| Clinical signs of shoulder instability, glenohumeral arthritis, AC pathology, inflammatory arthropathy, fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder or cervical radiculopathy |
| Sonographic signs of a rotator cuff tear (full thickness or partial thickness) or of a tear or a dislocation of the long head of the biceps tendon |
| A history of surgery or barbotage of the relevant shoulder |
| A subacromial injection with a corticosteroid or treatment by ESWT during the last 3 months before inclusion |
| Medical contraindications for any of the invasive procedures |
| One of the following contraindications for the use of Lidocaine 10 mg/ml: Patients with serious hypovolaemia, known cardiac conduction disturbances, epilepsy or porphyrias, patients with known serious dysfunction of the liver or the kidneys |
| One of the following contraindications for the use of Triamcinolone 20 mg/ml: Patients with systemic infections unless specific anti-infective therapy is employed, patients with a local infection in the area of application, patients recently vaccinated with live vaccines, patients with known diabetes mellitus, renal or cardiac insufficiency, ulcerating colitis, gastric ulcer, psychosis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or ocular herpes simplex |
| Concomitant medication with one of the following medicinal products: Anti-arrythmics such as mexiletine or class III antiarrythmics (e.g. amiodarone), muscle relaxants (e.g. suxamethonium) or antipsychotics (e.g. pimozide, sertindole, olanzapine, quetiapine, zotepine, tropisetrone, dolasetron), antibiotics such as quinopristin/dalfopristin, anticoagulants suchas warfarin (if INR > 2) or novel oral anticoagulants |
| A history of prior allergic/hypersensitivity reactions related to the study medication |
| Knowledge of an ongoing pregnancy (fertile women not using contraception and who are uncertain whether they are pregnant or not will have to perform a pregnancy test |
| Nursing women |