25 articles in this issue
Imme Zengerink,Tijs Duivenvoorden,Dieu Niesten,Hennie Verburg,Rolf Bloem,Nina Mathijssen
Bryan Wang
As the number of ACL injuries and primary ACL reconstruction surgeries increase, the absolute number of re-ruptures has also subsequently increased. In our study, we look at the causes of failure in the primary surgery and also report the clinical an... see more
Ana María Martín-Fuentes,Cristina Ojeda-Thies,Jesús Vilà-Rico
The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of meniscal tears repaired with an all-inside suture in stable versus anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-deficient knees. The patients were divided in two groups, Group A (isolated meniscal tears) consiste... see more
Abdullah ALOMRAN
Aim of this study is to compare clinical outcomes of circumpatellar electrocautery in non-resurfaced total knee arthroplasty with similar cases without denervation.Patients and methods: 184 patients undergoing non-resurfaced total knee arthroplasty ... see more
Philippe Willekens
The primary aim of this study is to document whether patellofemoral arthroplasty is a good treatment option for patellofemoral osteoarthritis and to identify prognostic outcome factors. Secondary aim is to investigate the influence of preoperative tibiofe... see more
Timothy Voskuijl,Thijs A. Nijenhuis,Gijs G. Van Hellemondt,Jon H.M. Goosen
Dissociation of the polyethylene insert after fixed bearing posterior stabilized Genesis II total knee arthroplasty has been rarely described. We present a case series of nine patients with a dissociation of the insert within a period of two years after s... see more
Sebastiaan van de Groes,Paul van der Ven,Keetie Kreemers - van de Hei,Sander Koëter,Nico Verdonschot
Background: Special high-flexion prosthetic designs show a small increase in postoperative flexion compared to standard designs and some papers show increased anterior knee pain with these prosthesis.Methods: A prospective double blind randomized controll... see more
Anna Thomas,Gopalakrishna PEMMARAJU,Gurpreet Nagra,James Bassett,Shreeram Deshpande
Interosseous pin sites used in Computer Navigated knee Arthroplasty are known to cause complications including infection neurovascular injury, thermal necrosis and peri-prosthetic fracture. Many studies have looked at ways of reducing these risks to impro... see more
Basim Kamil Hassan,Arne Sahlström,Ram Benny Christian Dessau
Renal injury and dysfunction are serious complications after major surgery, which may lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The objective of our study was to identify the possible risk factors for renal dysfunction after total knee joint replacement.... see more
Alexandre Lunebourg,Anais Luyet,Jean-François Fischer,Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli
Unicompartimental knee arthroplasty is a successful procedure for the treatment of localized osteoarthritis to one compartment of the knee with good long-term results. However, several modes of failure of unicompartimental knee arthroplasty have been desc... see more
Tom Claes
Although anterior knee pain is extremely common in high-level road cyclists, the exact etiology remains unclear. A group of 28 professional male elite cyclists diagnosed with Prepatellar Friction Syndrome (PPFS) were retrospectively reviewed with specific... see more
Harold JENNART,Maire-Ange NGO YAMBEN,Theofylaktos KYRIAKIDI,David ZORMAN
The aim of this study is to evaluate the precision of a patient specific instrumentation (PSI) system as determined by pinless navigation system. Eighty patients were included in our prospective comparative study and they were divided into two homogeneous... see more
Aad Dhollander,Peter Verdonk,Karl Fredrik Almqvist,Rene Verdonk,Jan Victor
Conflicting clinical outcomes have been reported recently with the use of an osteochondral scaffold plugs for cartilage repair in the knee. In this study, twenty patients were consecutively treated for their cartilage lesions with the synthetic plug techn... see more
Raju VAISHYA,Ajaz Majeed WANI,Vipul VIJAY
Postoperative analgesia following Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) with the use of parenteral opioids or epidural analgesia can be associated with side effects. Good perioperative analgesia facilitates faster rehabilitation, improves patient satisfaction, an... see more
Nikolai Kornilov
To describe the deformity of both bone and soft tissues in valgus knees and to answer the question whether a medial or lateral approach should be used for total knee arthroplasty.A prospective study of 52 consecutive patients with valgus knee osteoarthrit... see more
Kazunari Ishida
umut hatay gölge,halil murat sen,ersin kuyucu,hacer sen,Ferdi GÖKSEL,burak kaymaz,erkam kömürcü
We aimed to investigate the awareness of both types of chronic pain among patients and doctors.This prospective study was planned and coordinated by orthopedic and internal medicine clinics and included 100 patients with a diagnosis of knee OA. Patients w... see more
Raúl Torres-Claramunt,Sergi Gil-González,Pedro Hinarejos,Joan Leal-Blanquet,Xavier Pelfort,Lluís Puig,Albert Ginés
Yan-Ting Zhao,Hong-Jun Chu,De-Feng Heng,Jiang Lei
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the patients receiving simultaneous bilateral TKA (BTKA). A total of 93 patients consecutive patients with bilateral knee degenerative osteoarthritis from January 2008 to November 2013, and they ... see more
Savas Öztas,Alpaslan Öztürk,Yavuz Akalin,Namik Sahin,Yüksel Özkan,Ali Otuzbir,Bülent Avcu
The effect of local and systemic Tranexamic Acid on blood loss and need for transfusion after total knee replacement was compared prospectively. Between 2012-2013, 90 patients with unilateral TKR were included. They were randomly divided into 3 and 15 mg/... see more
Jason Beng Teck Lim,Andrew Chia Chen Chou,Hwei Chi Chong,Ngai Nung Lo,Shi-lu Chia,Keng Jin Darren Tay,Seng Jin Yeo
This study aims to review the quality of life and physical improvement achieved by total joint arthroplasty surgeries, namely unilateral TKA, bilateral TKA and THA. We hypothesize that patients who undergo bilateral TKA should have greater improvement in ... see more
Kourosh Zarghooni,Jan Bredow,Jan Siewe,Nicole Deutloff,Heiko Meyer,Christoph Lohmann
This prospective, open, non-controlled clinical investigation evaluated the performance of a modern post-operative wound dressing versus conventional dressings used on wounds of patients after undergoing hip or knee replacement. The clinical investig... see more
Laurent David Goubau
Background: Anatomic ACL surgery, including double bundle ACL reconstruction, has been investigated widely. The purpose of this study was to gain insight in the currently used surgical management of anterior cruciate ligament injuries amongst Belgian orth... see more
Jiaji Yue
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is an efficiently surgical treatment for osteoarthritis or avascular osteonecrosis by resurfacing the medial or lateral compartment of the tibiofemoral joint. Comparing with total knee arthroplasty (TKA), UKA has r... see more
Alan J Howieson,William Farrington
Unicompartmental knee replacement in the elderly may be associated with a better outcome than total knee replacement. The purpose of this review was to assess the clinical outcome in patients over the age of 70. A computerised search was performed using P... see more