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Gilles Walch is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Surgery, Epidemiology, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Within these broader fields, their work concentrates on topics related to shoulder injuries, nerve injury and rehabilitation, and orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, among others.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
  • Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
  • Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Hip disorders and treatments
  • Sports injuries and prevention

Walch has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
  • JSES International
  • Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
  • International Orthopaedics
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

Some recent publications include:

  • An update on reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: current indications, new designs, same old problems, 2021, EFORT Open Reviews
  • Anterior Shoulder Instability Part I-Diagnosis, Nonoperative Management, and Bankart Repair-An International Consensus Statement, 2021, Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
  • Anterior Shoulder Instability Part II-Latarjet, Remplissage, and Glenoid Bone-Grafting-An International Consensus Statement, 2021, Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
  • Effect of humeral stem and glenosphere designs on range of motion and muscle length in reverse shoulder arthroplasty, 2020, International Orthopaedics
  • Anterior Shoulder Instability Part III-Revision Surgery, Rehabilitation and Return to Play, and Clinical Follow-Up-An International Consensus Statement, 2021, Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Walch has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

  • George S. Athwal
  • Pascal Boileau
  • Marc-Olivier Gauci
  • Luc Favard
  • Jean Chaoui

Best Publications

  • Grammont inverted total shoulder arthroplasty in the treatment of glenohumeral osteoarthritis with massive rupture of the cuff. Results of a multicentre study of 80 shoulders.

    F. Sirveaux;L. Favard;D. Oudet;D. Huquet

  • Morphologic study of the glenoid in primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis.

    Gilles Walch;Roger Badet;Aziz Boulahia;Alfred Khoury

  • Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Review of Results According to Etiology

    Bryan Wall;Laurent Nové-Josserand;Daniel P O'Connor;T Bradley Edwards

  • Arthroscopic tenotomy of the long head of the biceps in the treatment of rotator cuff tears: clinical and radiographic results of 307 cases.

    Gilles Walch;T. Bradley Edwards;Aziz Boulahia;Laurent Nové-Josserand

  • Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Survivorship analysis of eighty replacements followed for five to ten years.

    Jacques Guery;Luc Favard;FrançOis Sirveaux;Didier Oudet

  • The three-dimensional geometry of the proximal humerus. Implications for surgical technique and prosthetic design.

    P. Boileau;G. Walch

  • Scapular notching in reverse shoulder arthroplasty.

    Christophe Lévigne;Pascal Boileau;Luc Favard;Pascal Garaud

  • Arthroscopic biceps tenodesis: a new technique using bioabsorbable interference screw fixation.

    Pascal Boileau;Sumant G. Krishnan;Jean-Sebastien Coste;Gilles Walch

  • A comparison of hemiarthroplasty and total shoulder arthroplasty in the treatment of primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis: results of a multicenter study.

    T.Bradley Edwards;Nimish R Kadakia;Aziz Boulahia;Jean-François Kempf

  • Subluxations and dislocations of the tendon of the long head of the biceps.

    Gilles Walch;Laurent Nové-Josserand;Pascal Boileau;Christophe Levigne

  • Results of anatomic nonconstrained prosthesis in primary osteoarthritis with biconcave glenoid

    Gilles Walch;Claudio Moraga;Allan Young;Juan Castellanos-Rosas

  • The ‘dropping’ and ‘hornblower’s’ signs in evaluation of rotator-cuff tears

    Gilles Walch;Aziz Boulahia;Salvatore Calderone;Andrew H. N. Robinson

  • Early results of a reverse design prosthesis in the treatment of arthritis of the shoulder in elderly patients with a large rotator cuff tear.

    Aziz Boulahia;T Bradley Edwards;Gilles Walch;Richard V Baratta

  • Shoulder arthroplasty for the treatment of the sequelae of fractures of the proximal humerus.

    Pascal Boileau;Christophe Trojani;Gilles Walch;Sumant G. Krishnan

  • Long-term results of the Latarjet procedure for anterior instability of the shoulder

    Naoko Mizuno;Patrick J. Denard;Patric Raiss;Barbara Melis

  • A modification to the Walch classification of the glenoid in primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis using three-dimensional imaging

    Michael J. Bercik;Kevin Kruse;Matthew Yalizis;Marc-Olivier Gauci

  • The management of infection in arthroplasty of the shoulder

    J. S. Coste;S. Reig;C. Trojani;M. Berg

  • Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty after failed rotator cuff surgery.

    Pascal Boileau;Jean-François Gonzalez;Christopher Chuinard;Ryan Bicknell

  • Long-Term Outcomes of Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Follow-up of a Previous Study.

    Guillaume Bacle;Laurent Nové-Josserand;Pascal Garaud;Gilles Walch

  • Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty for Primary Glenohumeral Osteoarthritis in Patients with a Biconcave Glenoid

    Naoko Mizuno;Patrick J Denard;Patric Raiss;Gilles Walch

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Boileau
Pascal Boileau Université Côte d'Azur
Christian Gerber
Christian Gerber University of Zurich
Daniel T. O'Connor
Daniel T. O'Connor University of California, San Diego
James D. Kelly
James D. Kelly Michigan State University
Eiji Itoi
Eiji Itoi Tohoku University
Jon J.P. Warner
Jon J.P. Warner Harvard University
Nicola Maffulli
Nicola Maffulli Queen Mary University of London
John W. Sperling
John W. Sperling Mayo Clinic
Anthony A. Romeo
Anthony A. Romeo Rush University Medical Center
Kai Nan An
Kai Nan An Mayo Clinic

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