Issue 4/2023
Content (50 Articles)
Intelligent innovations for our journal’s path forward
Jari Dahmen, M. Enes Kayaalp, Philipp W. Winkler, Matthieu Ollivier, Ayoosh Pareek, Jon Karlsson, Michael T. Hirschmann
Artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT in medical research: the potential game changer as a double-edged sword
Jari Dahmen, M. Enes Kayaalp, Matthieu Ollivier, Ayoosh Pareek, Michael T. Hirschmann, Jon Karlsson, Philipp W. Winkler
A deeper dive into ChatGPT: history, use and future perspectives for orthopaedic research
Matthieu Ollivier, Ayoosh Pareek, Jari Dahmen, M. Enes Kayaalp, Philipp W. Winkler, Michael T. Hirschmann, Jon Karlsson
Personalisation and customisation in total knee arthroplasty: the paradox of custom knee implants
Mo Saffarini, Michael T. Hirschmann, Michel Bonnin
Supervised machine learning and associated algorithms: applications in orthopedic surgery
James A. Pruneski, Ayoosh Pareek, Kyle N. Kunze, R. Kyle Martin, Jón Karlsson, Jacob F. Oeding, Ata M. Kiapour, Benedict U. Nwachukwu, Riley J. Williams III
Natural language processing: using artificial intelligence to understand human language in orthopedics
James A. Pruneski, Ayoosh Pareek, Benedict U. Nwachukwu, R. Kyle Martin, Bryan T. Kelly, Jón Karlsson, Andrew D. Pearle, Ata M. Kiapour, Riley J. Williams III
Custom TKA enables adequate realignment with minimal ligament release and grants satisfactory outcomes in knees that had prior osteotomies or extra-articular fracture sequelae
Jeremy Daxhelet, Tarik Aït-Si-Selmi, Jacobus H. Müller, Mo Saffarini, Salvatore Ratano, Louka Bondoux, Kalin Mihov, Michel P. Bonnin
Good clinical outcomes and return to sports after hybrid closed-wedge high tibial osteotomy
Hirotaka Nakashima, Yasuhiro Takahara, Satoru Itani, Yuichi Iwasaki, Kazuaki Miyazato, Haruyoshi Katayama, Hisayoshi Kato, Yoichiro Uchida
No significant difference in early clinical outcomes of custom versus off-the-shelf total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jacobus H. Müller, Michael Liebensteiner, Nanne Kort, Patrick Stirling, Peter Pilot, Mo Saffarini, Markus P. Arnold, Johannes Beckmann, Guillaume Demey
Patient-specific resurfacing implant knee surgery in subjects with early osteoarthritis results in medial pivot and lateral femoral rollback during flexion: a retrospective pilot study
Philippe Moewis, René Kaiser, Adam Trepczynski, Christoph von Tycowicz, Leonie Krahl, Ansgar Ilg, Johannes Holz, Georg N. Duda
The impact of different alignment strategies on bone cuts for neutral knee phenotypes in total knee arthroplasty
Benjamin L. Schelker, Céline S. Moret, Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Heiko Graichen, Markus P. Arnold, Vincent Leclercq, Rolf W. Huegli, Michael T. Hirschmann
Custom total knee arthroplasty combined with personalised alignment grants 94% patient satisfaction at minimum follow-up of 2 years
Lampros Gousopoulos, Andreas Dobbelaere, Salvatore Ratano, Louka Bondoux, Jacobus H. Müller, Sonia Dubreuil, Mo Saffarini, Carsten O. Tibesku, Tarik Aït-Si-Selmi, Michel P. Bonnin
Considerable inter-individual variability of tibial geometric ratios renders bone–implant mismatch unavoidable using off-the-shelf total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lucas Beckers, Jacobus H. Müller, Jeremy Daxhelet, Salvatore Ratano, Mo Saffarini, Tarik Aït-Si-Selmi, Michel P. Bonnin
Fusion rate of 89% after knee arthrodesis using an intramedullary nail: a mono-centric retrospective review of 48 cases
Anaïs Luyet, Sylvain Steinmetz, Nicolas Gallusser, David Roche, Arnaud Fischbacher, Christophe Tissot, Olivier Borens
Mid-flexion laxity could be identified with continuous flexion-arc gap assessment in patients with a large preoperative convergence angle
Sang Jun Song, Hyun Woo Lee, Dae Kyung Bae, Cheol Hee Park
Increased inflammatory response is associated with less favorable functional results 5 years after total knee arthroplasty
Jörg Lützner, Franziska Beyer, Cornelia Lützner, Peter Thomas, Burkhard Summer
Prediction of complications and surgery duration in primary TKA with high accuracy using machine learning with arthroplasty-specific data
Florian Hinterwimmer, Igor Lazic, Severin Langer, Christian Suren, Fiona Charitou, Michael T. Hirschmann, Georg Matziolis, Fritz Seidl, Florian Pohlig, Daniel Rueckert, Rainer Burgkart, Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe
An anatomo-functional implant positioning technique with robotic assistance for primary TKA allows the restoration of the native knee alignment and a natural functional ligament pattern, with a faster recovery at 6 months compared to an adjusted mechanical technique
Sébastien Parratte, Philippe Van Overschelde, Marc Bandi, Burak Yagmur Ozturk, Cécile Batailler
Posteromedial vertical capsulotomy selectively expands the intraoperative extension gap in cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty
Kensuke Yoshino, Ryutaku Kaneyama, Hitoshi Watanabe, Masaaki Sakamoto, Seiji Ohtori
The German version of the KOOS-Child questionnaire (Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score for children) shows a good to excellent internal consistency and a high test–retest reliability in children with knee problems
Cornelia Neuhaus, Carlo Camathias, Marcus Mumme, Oliver Faude
Increased femoral curvature and trochlea flexion in high-grade patellofemoral dysplastic knees
Sandro Hodel, Carlos Torrez, Armando Hoch, Philipp Fürnstahl, Lazaros Vlachopoulos, Sandro F. Fucentese
Use of intraoperative technology in total knee arthroplasty is not associated with reductions in postoperative pain
Andrew G. Kim, Zachary Bernhard, Alexander J. Acuña, Victoria S. Wu, Atul F. Kamath
Combined treatment with medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is effective on long-term follow-up
Ayham Jaber, Chang min Kim, Alexander Barié, Marcus Streit, Holger Schmitt, Michael Clarius, Christian Merle, Yannic Bangert
Deep learning-based landmark recognition and angle measurement of full-leg plain radiographs can be adopted to assess lower extremity alignment
Changwung Jo, Doohyun Hwang, Sunho Ko, Myung Ho Yang, Myung Chul Lee, Hyuk-Soo Han, Du Hyun Ro
Dynamic gap analysis of valgus knees shows large inter-individual variability of gaps
Kim Eller, Wolfgang Scior, Heiko Graichen
Mechanically aligned total knee arthroplasty with the extension-first technique does not equally restore neutral knee alignment in all preoperative knee phenotypes
Nina Hörlesberger, Carina Zinggl, Maria Anna Smolle, Lukas Leitner, Birgit Lohberger, Andreas Leithner, Patrick Sadoghi
A radiological index that influences the outcome following patellofemoral joint arthroplasty: the anterior trochlea offset ratio
Osama Aweid, Nathanael Ahearn, Andrew J. Metcalfe, Jonathan Eldridge, Andrew Porteous, James R. Murray, Andrew Porteous, Jonathon Eldridge, James Robinson, James Murray, Hywel Davies, Nick Howells, Damian Clark, Sven Putnis, Mo Hassaballa, Rachel Bray, Corina Negrut, Karen MacDonald, Suzanne Miller
Functional alignment achieves a more balanced total knee arthroplasty than either mechanical alignment or kinematic alignment prior to soft tissue releases
Gavin Clark, Richard Steer, David Wood
The coronal alignment technique impacts deviation from native knee anatomy after total knee arthroplasty
Jean-Yves Jenny, Florent Baldairon
Low tibial baseplate migration 1 year after unrestricted kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty using a medial conforming implant design
Abigail E. Niesen, Anna L. Garverick, Stephen M. Howell, Maury L. Hull
Systematic alignments yield balanced knees without additional releases in only 11% of knee arthroplasties: a prospective study
Pierre-Alban Bouché, Thomas Aubert, Simon Corsia, Nicolas Gaujac, Vincent Le Strat, Antoine Mouton, Simon Marmor
Variability of functional knee phenotype for coronal alignment in advanced varus knee osteoarthritis in the Japanese population
Wang Huan, Tomoharu Mochizuki, Osamu Tanifuji, Hiroyuki Kawashima
Alpha-defensin as a diagnostic tool in revision total knee arthroplasties with unexpected positive intraoperative cultures and unexpected culture negative intraoperative cultures
Sebastian Simon, Bernhard J. H. Frank, Alexander Aichmair, Martin Dominkus, Jennyfer A. Mitterer, Susana Gardete Hartmann, Michael Kasparek, Jochen G. Hofstaetter
Similar survival rate but lower functional outcomes following TKA in the elderly people compared to younger patients: analysis of a posterior stabilised implant with minimum 5-year follow-up
Etienne Deroche, Cécile Batailler, Jobe Shatrov, Stanislas Gunst, Elvire Servien, Sébastien Lustig
Inferior results at long-term follow-up after extensor mechanism allograft reconstruction in septic compared to aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Lamberti, Giovanni Balato, Giuseppe Cavallo, Pierpaolo Summa
Significant changes in lower limb alignment due to flexion and rotation—a systematic 3D simulation of radiographic measurements
Josef Brunner, Maximilian Jörgens, Maximilian Weigert, Hannah Kümpel, Nikolaus Degen, Julian Fuermetz
Influence of medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy on tibial tuberosity–trochlear groove distance
Sandro Hodel, Christoph Zindel, Lukas Jud, Lazaros Vlachopoulos, Philipp Fürnstahl, Sandro F. Fucentese
The Dugdale planning method for high tibial osteotomies underestimates the correction angle compared to the Miniaci method
Einar Andreas Sivertsen, Jarle Vik, Arn Ståle Vålnes Meland, Tor Kjetil Nerhus
Lateral tibial intercondylar eminence is a reliable reference for alignment correction in high tibial osteotomy
Xu Jiang, Bo Li, Kai Xie, Songtao Ai, Xumin Hu, Liangbin Gao, Liao Wang, Mengning Yan
Proximal external femoral torsion increases lateral femoral shaft bowing: a study based on 3D CT reconstruction models
LiMing Liu, Kai Lei, Xin Chen, DeJie Fu, Pengfei Yang, Liu Yang, Lin Guo
Hinge fractures reaching the tibial plateau can be caused by forcible opening of insufficient posterior osteotomy during open-wedge high tibial osteotomy
Yugo Morita, Shinichi Kuriyama, Takahiro Maeda, Shinichiro Nakamura, Kohei Nishitani, Hiromu Ito, Shuichi Matsuda
Work intensity and quality of life can be restored following double-level osteotomy in varus knee osteoarthritis
Christoph Ihle, Julia Dorn, Atesch Ateschrang, Heiko Baumgartner, Moritz Herbst, Stefan Döbele, Tina Histing, Steffen Schröter, Marc-Daniel Ahrend
Anatomical implications of the subvastus approach on major vascular injury during a distal femoral osteotomy: a computed tomographic venography study
Keiji Tensho, Daiki Kumaki, Tomoya Iwaasa, Suguru Koyama, Hiroki Shimodaira, Shota Ikegami, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Yoshinori Tsukahara, Jun Takahashi
Closed-wedge high tibial osteotomy is more advantageous to maintain the correction than open-wedge high tibial osteotomy in osteopenic patients
Sang Jun Song, Kyoung Ho Yoon, Kang Il Kim, Cheol Hee Park
Medially and distally inserted tuberosity screw fixation of the osteotomized tubercle is safe and effective in retro-tubercular bi-planar opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy
Sung Bae Park, Joo Sung Kim, Ho Won Jeong, Seung Jae Shim, Seong Yun Park, Jung Guel Kim, Yong Seuk Lee
Preoperative joint line convergence angle correction is a key factor in optimising accuracy in varus knee correction osteotomy
P. Behrendt, R. Akoto, I. Bartels, G. Thürig, H. Fahlbusch, A. Korthaus, D. Dalos, M. Hoffmann, K.-H. Frosch, M. Krause
Less risk of conversion to total knee arthroplasty without significant clinical and survivorship difference for opening-wedge high tibial osteotomies in varus knee deformities at 10-year minimum follow-up compared to closing-wedge high tibial osteotomies
A. Cazor, A. Schmidt, J. Shatrov, T. Alqahtani, P. Neyret, Elliot Sappey-Marinier, C. Batailler, S. Lustig, E. Servien
Increased medial meniscus extrusion led to worse clinical outcomes after medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy
Chang-Hyun Lee, Hong-Yeol Yang, Jong-Keun Seon