Total Knee Arthroplasty

TAMPA, Fla. — Results of a pilot study presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting provided quantitative evidence that unicompartmental knee arthroplasty restored native kinematics better than total knee arthroplasty.

Kinex Medical has released a market report on the future of postoperative recovery and telerehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty, featuring insight from 189 surgeons, leaders and hospital executives, according to a press release.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Using an appropriate skin incision and the help of a plastic surgeon, as well as performing careful flap dissection, may allow surgeons to avoid trouble in patients with previous knee incisions, according to a speaker.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Andrew J. Shimmin, MBBS, FRACS, spoke about the recent update to data in the Australian Joint Registry.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Robert L. Barrack, MD, spoke about patient dissatisfaction after total knee arthroplasty.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Frank A. Liporace, MD, spoke about mega prostheses in the treatment of periprosthetic fractures around a total knee arthroplasty or a revision knee arthroplasty.

According to published results, preoperative anemia was associated with an increased risk for complications, non-home discharge and unplanned readmission in patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty.

For patients with obesity, cemented and cementless total knee arthroplasty yielded similar clinical outcomes and implant survivorship at 6 months and 2 years, according to published results.

For experienced high-volume surgeons, robotic total knee arthroplasty was a longer and more costly procedure than manual total knee arthroplasty, with similar lengths of stay and complications, a comparison of cost and quality showed.

Published results showed a 93.3% survivorship free from any aseptic patellar complication at 20 years in patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty with a cemented all-polyethylene patellar component.