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Introduction The treatment of medial unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis (OA) following failed high tibial osteotomy (HTO) is an issue of debate ( 1 , 2 ). Although prior HTO has traditionally been considered as a contraindication for medial
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Introduction Knee arthroscopy is the replacement choice for patients with symptomatic degenerative arthropathy who have failed conservative treatment, such as intra-articular loose bodies and meniscal pathology. Postoperative joint pain and
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conservative course of treatment has failed. This is true for patients with and without knee osteoarthritis. 37 – 41 However, patients should be informed that with increasing degenerative changes of the knee the success rate decreases. It is important to
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reports have been independent, unblinded series. To our knowledge, there is no randomised clinical trial that compares different revision surgery for failed TKA. The purpose of this article is to review the current literature and registry results, and
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In patients with BMI ⩾ 35 kg/m 2 , Bonutti et al 32 found, in 2011, higher UKA failure rates (12.5%) whereas Knee Society scores were lower in the surviving high-BMI knees. In a retrospective study on 471 failed medial UKAs, Citak et al 33
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DAIR treatment. 13 DAIR seeks to preserve a stable implant in a functional patient. 13 The success rates vary among different studies, ranging from 16% to 82%. 14 – 16 The concern that a failed DAIR undermines the future success of
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radiographs. Revision of painful prostheses, performed in pre-arthritic knees, is doomed to fail if a major cause of failure is not identified and corrected. Walking gait, knee range of motion and ligamentous stability have to be closely evaluated during
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the risk of failure and if it fails, the amount of secondary resection will not be higher than the primary virtual meniscectomy. 22 In the same way, timing influences outcomes: a repair as early as possible is better. In general, acutely repaired
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vertical peripheral longitudinal meniscus tears, were recently counted as ramp lesions ( 41 ). The biomechanical studies are controversial ( 42 ), and the clinical studies failed so far to show an advantage of repairing ramp lesions compared to arthroscopic
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. Allografts are indicated in patients with chronic patellar tendon defects with poor native tissue, significant retraction or failed primary repairs. Fresh-frozen Achilles tendon with bone block or bone-patellar tendon-bone grafts are the most frequently used
