Issue 7/2019
Content (45 Articles)
Alignment in TKA: what has been clear is not anymore!
Michael T. Hirschmann, Roland Becker, Reha Tandogan, Pascal-André Vendittoli, Stephen Howell
The discrepancy between patient expectations and actual outcome reduces at the first 6 months following total knee replacement surgery
Pazit Levinger, John R. Bartlett, Neil R. Bergman, Stephen McMahon, Hylton B. Menz, Keith D. Hill
Valgus position of the femoral component causes abnormal kinematics in the presence of medial looseness in total knee arthroplasty: a computer simulation model of TKA for valgus knee osteoarthritis
Kohei Nishitani, Shinichi Kuriyama, Shinichiro Nakamura, Yugo Morita, Hiromu Ito, Shuichi Matsuda
Fulfillment of expectations influence patient satisfaction 5 years after total knee arthroplasty
Cornelia Lützner, Anne Postler, Franziska Beyer, Stephan Kirschner, Jörg Lützner
Tourniquet application does not affect the periprosthetic bone cement penetration in total knee arthroplasty
Ahmed Jawhar, Vera Stetzelberger, Karl Kollowa, Udo Obertacke
The use of bisphosphonates after joint arthroplasty is associated with lower implant revision rate
Du Hyun Ro, Heejin Jin, Jae-Young Park, Myung Chul Lee, Sungho Won, Hyuk-Soo Han
Femoral joint line restoration is a major determinant of postoperative range of motion in revision total knee arthroplasty
Hyuk-Soo Han, Cheol Hwan Yu, Nari Shin, Sungho Won, Myung Chul Lee
Bicruciate-stabilised total knee arthroplasty provides good functional stability during high-flexion weight-bearing activities
Kenichi Kono, Hiroshi Inui, Tetsuya Tomita, Takaharu Yamazaki, Shuji Taketomi, Kazuomi Sugamoto, Sakae Tanaka
Perioperative pregabalin does not reduce opioid requirements in total knee arthroplasty
Jing Hui Yik, Wei Yang Wilson Tham, Kwang Hui Tay, Liang Shen, Lingaraj Krishna
Retrieval analysis of contemporary antioxidant polyethylene: multiple material and design changes may decrease implant performance
Arianna Cerquiglini, Johann Henckel, Harry Hothi, Lukas B. Moser, Antti Eskelinen, Michael T. Hirschmann, Alister J. Hart
Open posterior capsular release with an osteotome in total knee arthroplasty does not place important neurovascular structures at risk
Zachariah Pinter, Rucker Staggers, Sung Lee, Shelby Bergstresser, Ashish Shah, Sameer Naranje
No difference in joint awareness after TKA: a matched-pair analysis of a classic implant and its evolutional design
Henrik Behrend, Vilijam Zdravkovic, Marco Bösch, Bettina Hochreiter
Sexual and ethnic polymorphism render prosthetic overhang and under-coverage inevitable using off-the shelf TKA implants
Ke Li, Mo Saffarini, Jeremy Valluy, Marie-Charlotte Desseroit, Yannick Morvan, Norbert Telmon, Etienne Cavaignac
Posterior condylar bone resection and femoral implant thickness vary by up to 3 mm across implant systems: implications for flexion gap balancing
Cynthia A. Kahlenberg, Shady Elmasry, David J. Mayman, Michael B. Cross, Timothy M. Wright, Geoffrey H. Westrich, Peter K. Sculco
New mobile-bearing TKA with unique ball and socket post-cam mechanism offers similar function and stability with better prosthesis fit and gap balancing compared to an established fixed-bearing prosthesis
Vivek Tiwari, Prashant Meshram, Chang Kyu Park, Vivek Bansal, Tae Kyun Kim
Wider femoral and mediolaterally narrower tibial components are required for total knee arthroplasty in Turkish patients
Abdulhamit Misir, Kadir Ilker Yildiz, Turan Bilge Kizkapan
Increased postoperative dexamethasone and gabapentin reduces opioid consumption after total knee arthroplasty
Lukas Eckhard, Todd Jones, Jamie E. Collins, Swastina Shrestha, Wolfgang Fitz
Younger patients with high varus malalignment of the contralateral knee may be candidates for simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty
Shogo Hashimoto, Masanori Terauchi, Kazuhisa Hatayama, Kenichi Saito, Hirotaka Chikuda
Mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty implants combined with surface cementation produced satisfactory clinical and radiographic outcomes at the 5-year follow-up
Yoshinori Ishii, Hideo Noguchi, Junko Sato, Hana Ishii, Ryo Ishii, Shin-ichi Toyabe
Parkinson’s disease increases the risk of perioperative complications after total knee arthroplasty: a nationwide database study
Jared M. Newman, Nipun Sodhi, Alyeesha B. Wilhelm, Anton Khlopas, Alison K. Klika, Qais Naziri, Thomas J. Kryzak, Carlos A. Higuera, Michael A. Mont
Light intensity physical activity increases and sedentary behavior decreases following total knee arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis
Emmanuel Frimpong, Joanne A. McVeigh, Dick van der Jagt, Lipalo Mokete, Yusuf S. Kaoje, Mohammed Tikly, Rebecca M. Meiring
Higher failure rate of two-stage revision for infected knee arthroplasties in significantly compromised (host-C) patients
Hosam E. Matar, Paula Stritch, Nicholas Emms
Intraoperative mobile-bearing movement in Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
Kohei Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Inui, Shuji Taketomi, Ryota Yamagami, Keiu Nakazato, Nobuyuki Shirakawa, Sakae Tanaka
Mid- to long-term results of allograft–prosthesis composite reconstruction after removal of a distal femoral malignant tumor are comparable to those of the proximal tibia
Pablo Puerta-GarciaSandoval, Alejandro Lizaur-Utrilla, Maria A. Trigueros-Rentero, Fernando A. Lopez-Prats
Similar postoperative patient-reported outcome in both second generation patellofemoral arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty for treatment of isolated patellofemoral osteoarthritis: a systematic review
Kristine Ifigenia Bunyoz, Sébastien Lustig, Anders Troelsen
A load-measuring device can achieve fine-tuning of mediolateral load at knee arthroplasty but may lead to a more lax knee state
William A. Manning, Alasdair Blain, Lee Longstaff, David J. Deehan
High patient satisfaction with significant improvement in knee function and pain relief after mid-term follow-up in patients with isolated patellofemoral inlay arthroplasty
Andreas B. Imhoff, Matthias J. Feucht, Eva Bartsch, Matthias Cotic, Jonas Pogorzelski
Obesity should not be considered a contraindication to medial Oxford UKA: long-term patient-reported outcomes and implant survival in 1000 knees
James Molloy, James Kennedy, Cathy Jenkins, Stephen Mellon, Christopher Dodd, David Murray
Medial femoral epicondyle upsliding osteotomy with posterior stabilized arthroplasty provided good clinical outcomes such as constrained arthroplasty in primary total knee arthroplasty with severe valgus deformity
Ping Mou, Yi Zeng, Fuxing Pei, Zongke Zhou, Bin Shen, Pengde Kang, Jing Yang
Bearing design influences short- to mid-term survivorship, but not functional outcomes following lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a systematic review
Joost A. Burger, Laura J. Kleeblad, Inger N. Sierevelt, Wieger G. Horstmann, Peter A. Nolte
Age, gender, functional KSS, reason for revision and type of bone defect predict functional outcome 5 years after revision total knee arthroplasty: a multivariable prediction model
Jan F. M. Verbeek, Gerjon Hannink, Koen C. Defoort, Ate B. Wymenga, Petra J. C. Heesterbeek
Early outcomes of an anatomic trochlear-cutting patellofemoral arthroplasty: patient selection is key
David Dejour, Mo Saffarini, Yves Malemo, Marco Pungitore, Jeremy Valluy, Luca Nover, Guillaume Demey
Robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee replacement offers no early advantage over conventional unicompartmental knee replacement
Jason Wong, Taylor Murtaugh, Akshay Lakra, H. John Cooper, Roshan P. Shah, Jeffrey A. Geller
Negative impact of prior debridement on functional outcome of subsequent two-stage revision for early knee periprosthetic infection
Alejandro Lizaur-Utrilla, Alfredo Asensio-Pascual, Santiago Gonzalez-Parreño, Francisco A. Miralles-Muñoz, Fernando A. Lopez-Prats
Increased rates of knee arthroplasty and cost of patients with meniscal tears treated with arthroscopic partial meniscectomy versus non-operative management
Brandon Barnds, Brandon Morris, Scott Mullen, John Paul Schroeppel, Armin Tarakemeh, Bryan G. Vopat
Intrawound vancomycin powder increases post-operative wound complications and does not decrease periprosthetic joint infection in primary total and unicompartmental knee arthroplasties
Mitsuru Hanada, Shoichi Nishikino, Kensuke Hotta, Hiroki Furuhashi, Hironobu Hoshino, Yukihiro Matsuyama
Distal femoral torsional osteotomy increases the contact pressure of the medial patellofemoral joint in biomechanical analysis
Franz Liska, Constantin von Deimling, Alexander Otto, Lukas Willinger, Ralf Kellner, Andreas B. Imhoff, Rainer Burgkart, Andreas Voss
High tibial osteotomy increases patellofemoral pressure if adverted proximal, while open-wedge HTO with distal biplanar osteotomy discharges the patellofemoral joint: different open-wedge high tibial osteotomies compared to an extra-articular unloading device
Ferdinand Kloos, Christoph Becher, Benjamin Fleischer, Matthias J. Feucht, Lisa Hohloch, Norbert Südkamp, Philipp Niemeyer, Gerrit Bode
Eight respectively nine out of ten patients return to sport and work after distal femoral osteotomy
Alexander Hoorntje, Berbke T. van Ginneken, P. Paul F. M. Kuijer, Koen L. M. Koenraadt, Rutger C. I. van Geenen, Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs, Ronald J. van Heerwaarden
Unloader knee brace increases medial compartment joint space during gait in knee osteoarthritis patients
Kanto Nagai, Shumeng Yang, Freddie H. Fu, William Anderst
Validation of the French version of the KOOS-child questionnaire
Eliane Rioux Trottier, Marie Beauséjour, Stéphanie Lamer, Peter Glavas, Guy Grimard, Marie-Lyne Nault
Additional benefit of local infiltration of analgesia to femoral nerve block in total knee arthroplasty: double-blind randomized control study
Koji Aso, Masashi Izumi, Natsuki Sugimura, Yusuke Okanoue, Yuko Kamimoto, Masataka Yokoyama, Masahiko Ikeuchi
Opening-wedge osteotomies of the distal femur: minor advantages for a biplanar compared to a uniplanar technique
Martin Pietsch, Markus Hochegger, Martin Winkler, Sabrina Sandriesser, Thomas Freude, Peter Augat
Correction to: No difference in outcomes and gait analysis between mechanical and kinematic knee alignment methods using robotic total knee arthroplasty
Je-Hyoung Yeo, Jong-Keun Seon, Dong-Hyun Lee, Eun-Kyoo Song