Knee News

Results showed most of the top 50 orthopedic hospitals provided publicly accessible cost information for total joint arthroplasty procedures but in a format that did not benefit patients.

Tanezumab and NSAIDs both demonstrated early and sustained improvement in pain and function among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Research and Therapy.

Joint replacement in patients with inflammatory arthritis is often beset with pitfalls like disease flares and infectious complications, and up until recently, the emergence new treatments were rendering the current guidelines outdated.

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Total knee arthroplasty has offered great benefit to patients in recent decades. Although many patients are satisfied, studies show about 20% of them are not.

Immediate-use steam sterilization during orthopedic surgery may not increase surgical site infection rates among patients, according to published results.

Results showed the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program reduced racial disparities in readmission rates and Medicare payments for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty; but, racial disparities in other outcomes persisted.

Results showed a new femoral component antibiotic spacer for knee periprosthetic joint infection had similar infection control rates, increased knee range of motion and improved ambulatory status compared with contemporary counterparts.

High tibial osteotomy leading to large changes in knee dynamics may reduce the likelihood of total knee replacement in patients with knee osteoarthritis, according to a speaker at the 2022 OARSI World Congress.

Mechanical load plus a biomarker that reflects cartilage degradation may predict worsening cartilage thickness in knee osteoarthritis, according to a speaker at the 2021 OARSI World Congress.