Total Knee Arthroplasty

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Adolph V. Lombardi Jr., MD, FACS, spoke about use of an artificial intelligence prediction model for knee arthroplasty.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Christopher L. Peters, MD, spoke about patient engagement platforms in total joint replacement practices.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Derek J. Donegan, MD, MBA, spoke about periprosthetic fractures around total knee arthroplasty implants on the femoral side.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Frank A. Liporace, MD, spoke about periprosthetic fractures.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Results presented here showed use of cementless monoblock tantalum tibial components had excellent survivorship free from revision 10 years after total knee arthroplasty.

Surgeons should understand the stages and indications for removal of retained hardware in total knee arthroplasty to avoid malpositioning, infection or the unnecessary removal of hardware, according to a presenter.

Surgeons should consider computer-assisted surgery, adjuvant osteotomy and technique when planning for extra-articular deformity correction in patients with varus and valgus knees in total knee arthroplasty, a speaker said.

Optimization and pragmatic thinking can improve the patient experience and help surgeons transition from a “sick-patient” model to a “well-patient” model in the era of outpatient total hip and knee arthroplasty, according to a presenter.

Published results showed the type and cost of nonoperative treatment had substantial variation among patients with late-stage knee osteoarthritis prior to total knee arthroplasty.

According to published results, no significant clinical differences were found in long-term cognitive trajectories of patients who underwent total joint arthroplasty compared with patients without total joint arthroplasty.