While there is great interest in the field of telemedicine, as evidenced by a PubMed search for the term that returned > 30,000 articles, most of this interest has so far fallen outside of the field of orthopaedics. This is evidenced by a similar search for the...
New systematic review and meta-analysis comparing cementless and cemented fixation in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) finds more reasons to reconsider cementless fixation. Although no differences in survivorship were observed at minimum 2 years follow-up, the cementless...
“Improving the accuracy of implant positioning and limb alignment continues to be an important goal in total knee arthroplasty.” TKA using conventional instruments has been shown to yield a high incidence of coronal, sagittal and HKA outliers (> 3° from the...
Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) fixation is considered less technically challenging than cementless TKA because it is more forgiving of small defects in the bone cuts, which can be filled with cement.1 “Arguably the principle cause of poor outcomes in...
In this analysis of 842,072 primary total knee replacements (TKR) implanted for osteoarthritis between 1st April 2003 and 31st December 2016, the patella was not resurfaced in 536,228 (64%) of the procedures and resurfaced in the remaining 305,844 (36%) of cases (1)....
Surgeons in several countries have shown increasing interest in outpatient surgery for selected patients. While the safety of standardised outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) and Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) has been well documented, there are concerns that...
