VIDEO: Total wrist arthroplasty may be viable treatment for older patients with OA
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Key takeaways:
- Results showed wrist arthroplasty may be a viable treatment for older patients with OA.
- Researchers of a presented study said total wrist arthroplasty may supplant wrist fusion as the gold standard of care.
Results presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting showed total wrist arthroplasty may supplant total wrist fusion as the gold standard treatment for older patients with OA.
“Total wrist arthroplasty is a viable treatment option for patients with various forms of osteoarthritis, such as pancarpal arthritis; proximal carpectomies that have worn out; post-distal radius fracture; osteoarthritis or limited fusions that did not work for one reason or another due to nonunion or secondary degenerative changes,” Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, MD, orthopedic hand surgeon and professor of orthopedics at Brown University and The Medical University of South Carolina, told Healio. “It provides an attractive alternative to total wrist fusion, which has been the previous gold standard for patients who want to maintain motion and still lead a relatively active lifestyle.”
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Weiss APC, et al. Paper 11. Presented at: American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting; Sept. 19-21, 2024; Minneapolis.
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