Knee News

Results showed patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty with a cementless 3D-printed metal-backed patella had “excellent” survivorship and clinical and radiographic outcomes at 2 and 5 years.

Healio LIVE announced Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, which was scheduled for January 2021 in Maui, Hawaii, will be rescheduled to later in the year.

Opioid use among older Medicare beneficiaries dropped during a recent 4-year period, but a “substantial” number of these individuals were considered chronic and heavy opioid users, researchers wrote.

Stability plays a key role in primary total knee arthroplasty for patients and affects their overall satisfaction, making it an important consideration for orthopedic surgeons during planning and execution of the procedure.

Total knee arthroplasty ligament balancing is a complex interplay between patients’ inherent laxity/stiffness, bony alignment and soft tissue factors.

Patients who had a bilateral total knee arthroplasty had an increased risk for complications compared with patients who had a unilateral TKA, suggesting bilateral TKA may not be safe even for healthy patients.

A preoperative 1-gram dose of tranexamic acid decreased blood loss in patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasties, according to results of the Gold Award-winning paper in orthopaedics at the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Oxford Knee Score improvements after fixed-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty were associated with more meaningful patient outcomes vs. those for mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, study results showed.

Intraoperative scrub nurse hand-offs during total hip and knee arthroplasty cases performed at a major, urban academic center were associated with increased OR times of as much as 18 minutes, based on results of a retrospective study.

Positive differences in patient-reported outcomes were seen for patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty with robotics vs. without robotics, a presenter said at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting.