Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing unilateral primary total anatomical or reverse shoulder arthroplasty (Total Shoulder Arthroplasty) * Patients with a BMI \>18.5 and \<35 * Patients able to provide informed consent and follow all the study procedures as indicated by the protocol * Informed Consent as documented by signature Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to steroids * Revision and post-traumatic TSA * Active steroid or immunosuppressive therapy in the last 30 days before the operation * Pregnant or breast-feeding women * Presence of other clinically significant concomitant disease states (ASA IV) * Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus * Contraindications to Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs * Chronic systemic diseases as immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), gout, rheumatic arthritis * Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse * Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the participant. * Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study * Previous enrolment into the current study * Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons