Total Ankle Arthroplasty

A 71-year-old woman presented to the clinic for evaluation of progressively worsening chronic left ankle pain at her anterolateral ankle, which is worse with ankle dorsiflexion and activities, such as walking and hiking.

QUEBEC CITY — Under surgeon expertise in appropriately selected patients, simultaneous bilateral total ankle arthroplasty has comparable outcomes with the staged procedure for patients with bilateral end-stage ankle osteoarthritis.

QUEBEC CITY — In this video from the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting, Gregory C. Berlet, MD, FRCS(C) FAOA, spoke on cyst formation in patients with fully porous-coated stemmed tibial implants.

Published results showed the Inbone II Total Ankle System had good short-term survival and improvements in postoperative scores at 2 years in revision total ankle arthroplasty procedures.

Total ankle arthroplasty has advanced significantly during the last decade and continues to progress as our understanding of ankle kinematics improves.

Perceived by patients to cause the same extent of impairment as congestive heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, ankle arthritis affects about 1% of the United States population and mostly occurs from post-traumatic ankle injuries.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Compared with patients who undergo ankle arthrodesis, patients who undergo total ankle arthroplasty had better long-term functional scores but greater revision rates, according to presented results.

For patients with end-stage ankle arthritis, total ankle arthroplasty provided signicant improvements in overall function, ankle-specic function and pain relief at 4 years after surgery, according to published results.

According to an FDA safety communication, all Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement devices – known as the STAR Ankle from Stryker – had a higher-than-expected risk of polyethylene component fracture.

A 68-year-old man presented to our outpatient orthopedic department with a complicated history of chronic ankle pain and deformity, as well as a right ankle injury sustained 3 weeks earlier.