Clinical Trials

Achilles tendon rupture is a common injury and surgical treatment poses the risk of infection. An infected Achilles tendon is a difficult entity to treat due to a thin surrounding soft tissue envelope as well as poor tendon vascularity. In this retrospective review of cases examined at Mayo Clinic-Rochester, we seek to elucidate the clinical outcomes of patients who have undergone treatment for an infected Achilles tendon. 

Tears of the abductor tendons have become an evermore-recognized source of debilitating lateral hip pain. Two broad surgical approaches have been described to manage these tears: repairing the tendons or performing a transfer of the Gluteus Maximus tendon. While a classification system has already been proposed to describe tear morphology and quality of the gluteus medius muscle on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging, little evidence is available to guide treatment (reconstruction versus muscle transfer).

The purpose of this investigation is to identify changes in tendon composition and gene expression between diseased and non-diseased tendon tissue with the goal of identifying molecular targets that can be harnessed to treat or reverse degenerative tendon disease.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate different alternatives in management of Brachial Plexus Injuries for patients who require tendon transfer for improvement of function.