Foot/Ankle News

NEW ORLEANS — Use of oliceridine following bunionectomy yielded clinically meaningful pain relief compared with placebo, according to results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.

Recently published data showed that patients with simple distal tibia fractures treated with either minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis or minimal open reduction and internal fixation had high union rates and good functional outcomes.

The EFORT 2018 Congress Main Theme is innovation and new technologies, a headline focused on the rapid and extensive evolution of surgery and treatment options in orthopaedics and traumatology. Technology has revolutionized how we picture the world in all aspects: from movies, gaming and printing to surgery, where our representations of reality evolved from crude, flat and distorted pictures to high-definition 3-D models.

EFORT Open Reviews is the new open access journal from EFORT and Bone & Joint Publishing. All articles are free to read online with no subscription required.

Arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis was effective for the treatment of degenerative ankle disease, including in patients with moderate tibiotalar coronal deformity, according to a recently published study.

General use of one-third tubular plating for fibula fractures may result in cost savings in the United States of up to nearly $40 million annually compared with use of anatomic plating, according to results published in Orthopedics.

Ankle cartilage surgeons from around the world collaborated at the International Consensus Meeting on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle, where they discussed and debated the best ways to treat ankle cartilage injuries and ultimately established a consensus to which all orthopedic surgeons can refer.

The distal tibiofibular syndesmosis uniquely contributes to ankle joint function by constraining the lateral articulation with the talus while its own conformation shifts throughout ankle range of motion. Altered syndesmotic alignment and constraint have been associated with diminished outcomes after surgery. Indeed, the incidence of postoperative syndesmotic malreduction has been variously reported and may be as high as 52%. Although the threshold parameters for diminished outcomes are not well defined, the acceptable tolerances are thought to be small.

Inferior outcomes were seen at 5-year follow-up for patients who had reconstructed hindfoot factures compared with patients who had a delayed amputation, according to a recently published study.

KOLOA, Hawaii – At Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2018, Frank A. Liporace, MD, spoke about ways to treat ankle fractures.