Current designs and trends in reverse shoulder arthroplasty

Abstract

Introduction The need for finding a suitable treatment for patients suffering from cuff tear arthropathy has been the basis for the evolvement of reverse shoulder arthroplasty. This unorthodox implant with promising but not very satisfactory results, when early design results were reported, has seen a substantial increase in the recent years in the creation of new prosthe-ses and implantations. All designs that exist so far and their alterations according to the first Delta prosthe-sis are being analysed in this review.