Knee pain continues to be one of the top five reasons for revision knee replacement. Adverse knee pain has been reported in 10 to 34% of all total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Up to 20% of those patients complain of more pain post-operatively than preoperatively.1 Tibial...
Deciding upon the optimal coronal alignment for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains an area of debate. Mechanical alignment (MA), resulting in a horizontal joint line and neutral mechanical axis, has long been considered the ‘gold standard’ in TKA, and has...
More patients in the MC group were “very satisfied” (92.6% Vs 81.5%; p = 0.04) and fewer were “not at all satisfied” (1.2% Vs 9.2%; p = 0.04) compared with the CR group1. Although the MC group reported better pain scores than the posterior stabilised (PS) group at...
This was a retrospective review of long-term outcomes in a young (< 60 Yrs) cohort of patients that received a Miller-Galante (MG) partial knee replacement (PKR) between November 2000 and July 2007.1 The cohort consisted of 91 medial PKR performed in 70 patients.1...
Prosthetic migration measured by radiostereometric analysis (RSA) within the first 2 years of knee arthroplasty is predictive of long-term aseptic mechanical loosening.1 This makes it a good tool for evaluating the likely performance of new implant designs.1 In this...
Several studies have shown that partial knee replacement (PKR) is associated with a faster recovery and fewer complications than total knee replacement (TKR).1 It has been suggested, however, that these findings may reflect differences in pre-operative comorbidities...
