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Filter by:Total hip replacement (THP) is widely used for hip osteoarthritis treatment. Surgeons are constantly looking to improve all aspects related to this procedure weather is improvement of implant design, instrumentation or surgical technique. Excellent clinical and radiological results were observed at medium and long term in the last years for AMIStem system. This observational study has the objective to survey hip prosthesis stability and function of the operated hip in patients who are not exposed to surgical risks. The principal investigator will contact all patients in order to perform the follow-up visit according to standard practice. Patients operated between January 2010 and December 2011 will be invited in the study during the clinical visit organised according to standard practice. Preoperative clinical and radiological data, intraoperative details and postoperative follow-up data at 1-year will be retrospectively collected. Five-year and ten-year data will be prospectively collected after inclusion in the study.
The objective of this research project is to perform a comparative study on the in vivo kinematics of the GMK Sphere prosthesis in comparison to the conventional GMK PS Fixed Bearing TKA and the GMK UC Fixed Bearing TKA.
The purpose of this study is to assess the positioning of customized guides designed from patients X-Rays (Materialise X-Ray Knee Guides) using computed tomography in primary total knee arthroplasty.
The primary objective of this study is to examine whether there is a difference in the level of resting pain following total hip arthroplasty with an anterior approach with use of a psoas compartment block versus a local periarticular anesthetic infiltration
This is a randomized prospective outcomes study comparing two groups of patients. One group will receive liposomal bupivacaine for a periarticular injection. The other will receive ropivacaine for periarticular injection for pain relief after Total Knee Arthroplasty. the primary objective of this study is to determine if liposomal bupivacaine provides superior pain control (decreased maximal pain scores within the first 72 hours post surgery) when compared to ropivacaine when injected in a periarticular injection.
The optimal method of total knee replacement component fixation to the bone remains a challenge. The use of bone cement is considered the gold standard and is the preferred technique for most surgeons. However, uncemented fixation methods have been developed in an attempt to tackle problems that can be seen when cement is used. The cement-bone interlock can deform and degrade over the years and can lead to aseptic loosening, especially in young and active patients. A loosened prosthesis results in an impaired functioning and painful knee in daily life for which a revision of the prosthesis may be necessary. To prevent aseptic loosening and subsequent revision surgery, new methods of uncemented fixation have been developed. One of these methods is to use a highly porous metal called Tritanium®. It can improve the biologic fixation by resembling the characteristics of trabecular bone. It is expected that this surface aids bone ingrowth and to have similar or even better results concerning early fixation properties and long-term durability compared with cemented fixation. Excellent results using this highly porous Tritanium have been seen in total hip surgery already. This single-blinded, randomized clinical trial will assess clinical and radiological outcomes including Roentgen Stereophotogrammetry (RSA) measurements of a newly approved uncemented Triathlon Tritanium CR total knee prosthesis compared with a standard cemented Triathlon metal-backed CR total knee prosthesis (both by Stryker Orthopaedics). Two arms of each 35 patients will be included. The primary outcome measure will be prosthetic migration after two years of the uncemented Triathlon Tritanium CR Total Knee and the cemented Triathlon CR Total Knee by means of RSA. It is hypothesized that the new uncemented Tritanium prosthesis will perform at least equally good in terms of migration and clinical parameters compared with the standard cemented Triathlon. The secondary outcome measure will be long-term (10-year) survival based on the two-year migration patterns combined with clinical factors and radiographic aspects. In order to identify other clinical parameters besides the fixation of the prosthesis components, clinical scores and radiographic aspects will be correlated with the RSA outcome. The 10-year results will be used to verify the predicted long-term survival results.
The purpose of this study was to develop a radiological method to measure stem anteversion and to determine its validity and reliability.
This study is a prospective, open-label, post-market, non-randomized, multi-center clinical evaluation of the Triathlon TS Total Knee System with Triathlon Tritanium Cone Augments for revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in a consecutive series of patients who meet the eligibility criteria. The revision rate of the Triathlon Tritanium Cone Augments is expected to be less than 2.8% for aseptic loosening of either the Femoral or the Tibial Cone Augments at 2 years postoperative.
Effective postoperative pain control is essential for patients and inadequate postoperative pain relief can cause mental and psychological sufferings. Despite the growing concern on postoperative pain management, acute postoperative pain is still poorly managed. Though numerous clinical practice guidelines for postoperative pain management have been published throughout the last decades, inadequate pain relief remain a big health care issue. Sufentanil has been used as satisfied pain control drug because of its strong potency of analgesia for a long while. But its use in patient controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) has not been clarified. And the dilemma of safety concern and insufficient dosage of analgesic is a common problem. Thus the investigators design this prospective randomized controlled double blinded trial to observe the efficacy and the optimal dose of sufentanil in PCIA in patients underwent moderate surgery for the purpose of providing reference in clinical practice.
There is obviously a lack of evidence regarding the risk-benefit ratio of a thigh tourniquet in unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA). This refers to many possible outcome criteria like operating time, blood loss, quality of prosthesis fixation in the bone, adverse events, radiographic result, clinical score outcome, easy of rehabilitation etc. It is not appropriate to rely on findings from the field of total knee arthroplasty. It is the aim of the current study, to clarify the role of a thigh tourniquet during UKA with regard to component fixation quality, component positioning and sizing, clinical outcome and rehabilitation process. Patients scheduled for routine UKA implantation due to osteoarthritis or osteonecrosis in the medial compartment will be considered for participation. Patients are then randomized for surgery with or without tourniquet. After an anteromedial Quad-Sparing approach the UKA procedure itself is then carried out, as suggested by the manufacturer. For both groups puls lavage and meticulous drying is applied before cementing. The following outcome parameters are assessed: 1)radiographic cement mantle thickness, 2)component position & sizing, 3)diolucencies, 4)score outcome and 5)parameters of early Rehab.