Arthroscopy News

A previously healthy 11-year-old girl presented to the orthopedic clinic with a 6-month history of “popping” when she bends her right knee. This mechanical symptom worsened with time.

Use of corticosteroid injections did not exacerbate radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis or accelerate total knee replacement compared with hyaluronic acid, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2020.

Certain patient demographics and outcomes, as well as pathology, may independently predict risk of total hip arthroplasty, reoperation and persistent symptoms after femoroacetabular impingement surgery, according to results.

Treatment with warfarin is associated with a significantly greater risk for hip or knee replacement compared with direct oral anticoagulants, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence.

A young patient with “snapping” on the lateral aspect of her symptomatic knee is shown intraoperatively.

The Latarjet procedure is a safe and effective surgical procedure to manage shoulder instability, a prominent orthopaedic surgeon from Lyon, France, said when he gave the Erwin Morscher Honorary Lecture at the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Patients who underwent delayed rotator cuff repair beyond 12 months of diagnosis had an increased risk of undergoing subsequent revision rotator cuff repair, according to results.

Study results showed an all-inside full-thickness quadriceps tendon technique for ACL reconstruction yielded good to excellent functional results with low complication rates and comorbidities in young, high-demand athletes.

Interleukin-1 inhibition with canakinumab may substantially reduce rates of total hip and knee replacement, as well as osteoarthritis symptoms, according to data published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Hip arthroscopy yields high initial patient satisfaction but moderate long-term clinical improvement in patients aged 65 years and older, according to published results.