Can Testosterone Accelerate Injury Recovery After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The objective of this study is to determine if treating patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with testosterone will allow patients to accelerate their recovery time after surgery.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Orthopedic Institute, Sioux Falls, SD
• Treatments: Methyltestosterone; Testosterone; Testosterone 17 beta-cypionate; Testosterone enanthate; Testosterone undecanoate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Males

• arthroscopic rotator cuff repair is an indicated treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• female patients

• irreparable rotator cuff tears

• tears requiring margin convergence repair

• atrophy of the rotator cuff greater than stage II as determined by the modified Goutallier staging system

• revision rotator cuff repair

• inflammatory arthritis

• adhesive capsulitis

• significant cervical pain or radiculopathy

• history of prostate cancer

• history of benign prostatic hypertrophy

• history of heart failure

• history of obstructive sleep apnea

• history of polycythemia

• history of venous thromboembolism or inherited thrombophilia