Andrea Dominguez, Medical Student, Autonoma University of Barcelone, Spain Laura Lucia Mira, Roberto Seijas, Ramon Cugat, Orthopedic Surgery, Garcia Cugat Foundation Quiron Hospital Barcelone, Spain Andrea Sallent, Vall Hebron Hospital Barcelone, Spain Laura Lucia Mira, Roberto Seijas, Carles Escalona, Oscar Ares, Basic Sciences Department, International University of Catalunya, Spain Oscar Ares, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain Confict-of-interest statement: The author(s) declare(s) that there is no confict of interest regarding the publication of this paper. Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Com- mons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non- commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non- commercial. See: http: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Correspondence to: Roberto Seijas, MD, PhD, Quiron Hospital Barcelona, Pza. Alfonso Comín 5-7, 08035 Barcelone, Spain. Email: roberto6jas@gmail.com Telephone: +34932172252 Fax: +34932381634 Received: February 9, 2017 Revised: April 19, 2017 Accepted: April 21 2017 Published online: June 28, 2017 ABSTRACT AIM: To study the short-term (considered as a 1-month period after surgery) outcomes experienced by patients following median nerve release due to carpal tunnel syndrome. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study was performed between September 2013 and October 2014. Inclusion cri- teria included suffering from CTS for at least six months confrmed by clinical and electromyographyc criteria and undergoing median nerve release. Exclusion criteria were pregnancy, patients with acute CTS and patients who were not able to read or non-Spanish speakers. All participants completed the questionnaires DASH, SF-36 and a Visual Analogue Scale for Pain, preoperatively and one month after surgery. RESULTS: Thirty patients were included, 22 women and 8 men. DASH and VAS showed statistical signifcant differences before and after surgery (p < 0.05) whereas SF-36 did not show signifcant dif- ferences. CONCLUSION: This study shows that median nerve surgical re- lease for CTS has satisfying outcomes in only one month from sur- gery. Key words: Carpal tunnel release; Short term outcomes; SF-36; DASH; Functional outcomes © 2017 The Author(s). Published by ACT Publishing Group Ltd. All rights reserved. Dominguez A, Mira LL, Sallent A, Seijas R, Escalona C, Cugat R, Ares O. Short-Term Outcomes after Median Nerve Release for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. International Journal of Orthopaedics 2017; 4(3): 758-762 Available from: URL: http: //www.ghrnet.org/ index.php/ijo/article/view/1986 INTRODUCTION The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) de- fines carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) as “symptomatic compressive neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist.” [1,2] . CTS is the most frequent compression peripheral neuropathy in the hand. It is esti- mated to affect 3.8% of the general population [3] with an incidence of 276: 100,000 a year [4] . It occurs more frequently in women, with a prevalence of 9.2% among women and 6% in men [2,5] . CTS is the most popular and common form of compression of the median nerve [1,6-8] and it makes up for 90% of all compression neuropathies [9] . TOPIC HIGHLIGHT Short-Term Outcomes after Median Nerve Release for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Andrea Dominguez, Laura Lucia Mira, Andrea Sallent, Roberto Seijas, Carles Escalona, Ramon Cugat, Oscar Ares 758 Int. J. of Orth. 2017 June 28; 4(3): 758-762 ISSN 2311-5106 (Print), ISSN 2313-1462 (Online) Online Submissions: http://www.ghrnet.org/index.php/ijo doi:10.17554/j.issn.2311-5106.2017.04.214 International Journal of Orthopaedics