Wiki Laparoscopic Rotator Cuff Repair with Xenograft

[TnRushFan]

Hello everyone, please let me know what you think...Does the xenograft bundle into the rotator cuff?
Here are some excerpts from the operative documentation:

PROCEDURE:
Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (29827).
Biceps tenodesis (29828).
Use of Xenograft porcine patch for rotator cuff approximation. (29999 ?) (HCPCS ?)

*Biceps Tenodesis
-- biceps tendon was released
-- biceps tendon was instilled in it and screw over it instilling 2 arms of the biceps into the tunnel with screw placement
-- closed this area
*Rotator Cuff Repair
-- identified the margins of the tear
-- released as much of the tendon off the glenoid labrum and neck of the glenoid as possible
-- released and free the anterior edge down to the coracoid
-- a large crescentic tear
-- placing 2 free stitches
-- placed two 2.8 mm anchors
-- repaired the native limbs of the rotator cuff
*Xenograft Placement
-- created a triangular space
-- parachuted the graft in… sewing it to the medial cuff tissue

Thank you in advance!

 

[Orthocoderpgu]

What's the purpose of the graft?

Very often when a graft is used in the shoulder it's for superior capsule reconstruction. for this the graft is anchored at the glenoid and the humeral head. I'm not sure what the purpose of the graft is in this situation.