Researchers found that a preoperative measurement of a patient’s femoral valgus angle could help them reduce the number of outliers of femoral component positioning in total knee arthroplasty and may ...
Knee osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States and worldwide.Patients who have failed ...
"These findings open new doors in the realm of revision knee arthroplasty," said Alexander Caughran, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery and co-author on the study. "We continue to ...
As Orthopaedics is a dynamic medical speciality, many new technological and surgical innovations have developed in TKA to maximize patient satisfaction and surgical outcomes. The demand for joint ...
In a minority-predominant patient population, a standardized pathway for total knee arthroplasty was associated with improved outcomes with no change in postoperative complication rates. Objectives: ...
Preoperative patient education may influence the patient’s choice of anesthetic technique for total knee arthroplasty, according to a poster presented at the 41st Annual Regional Anesthesiology and ...
Knee replacement surgery, also known as total knee arthroplasty (TKA), is increasing among patients 65 and younger. One study projects a potential 183% increase in the number of TKA and revision TKA ...