Patient-specific instrumentation of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a technique permitting the targeting of individual kinematic alignment, but deviation from a neutral mechanical axis may have implications on implant fixation and therefore survivorship. The primary objective of this randomized controlled study was to compare the fixation of tibial components implanted with patient-specific instrumentation targeting kinematic alignment (KA+PSI) A total of 47 patients due to undergo TKA were randomized to KA+PSI (n = 24) or MA+CAS (n = 23). In the KA+PSI group, there were 16 female and eight male patients with a mean age of 64 years (Aims
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Early implant migration measured with radiostereometric analysis (RSA) has been proposed as a useful predictor of long-term fixation of tibial components in total knee arthroplasty. Evaluation of actual long-term fixation is of interest for cemented components, as well as for cementless fixation, which may offer long-term advantages once osseointegration has occurred. The objective of this study was to compare the long-term migration with one- and two-year migration to evaluate the predictive ability of short-term migration data and to compare migration and inducible displacement between cemented and cementless (porous metal monoblock) components at least ten years postoperatively. Patients who had participated in RSA migration studies with two-year follow-up were recruited to return for a long-term follow-up, at least ten years from surgery. Two cemented tibial designs from two manufacturers and one porous metal monoblock cementless tibial design were studied. At the long-term follow-up, patients had supine RSA examinations to determine migration and loaded examinations (single leg stance) to determine inducible displacement. In total, 79 patients (54 female) returned, with mean time since surgery of 12 years (10 to 14). There were 58 cemented and 21 cementless tibial components.Aims
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Cementless fixation in total knee arthroplasty has been proposed to offer advantages long-term once osteointegration has occurred as there is no substrate between the implant and the bone to fail. Radiostereometric analysis (RSA) is a useful tool to study fixation, but typically focused on early migration in the first two post-operative years. Few studies have looked at 10-year RSA migration in cementless fixation and those that have contain small numbers of subjects. The objective of this study was to compare implant migration and inducible displacement between cemented and cementless TKA at 10 years and to compare the 10-year migration to the 2-year data in an effort to validate the predictive modelling of RSA. Subjects who had previously participated in RSA migration studies with 2-year follow-up were recruited to return for a long-term follow-up exam, at least 10 years from their surgery. The implants under study included two cemented designs from two manufacturers and one porous metal monoblock cementless design. At the 10-year visit, subjects had supine RSA exams to determine long-term migration as well as a loaded exam (single leg stance) to determine inducible displacement. Differences between cemented and cementless groups were evaluated with the Mann Whitney U test and Spearman's rank correlation coefficients were calculated for early and late migrations. Significance was set at p < 0.05.Introduction
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Hydroxyapatite coatings for uncemented fixation in total knee
arthroplasty can theoretically provide a long-lasting biological
interface with the host bone. The objective of this study was to
test this hypothesis with propriety hydroxyapatite, peri-apatite,
coated tibial components using component migration measured with radiostereometric
analysis over two years as an indicator of long-term fixation. A total of 29 patients at two centres received uncemented PA-coated
tibial components and were followed for two years with radiostereometric
analysis exams to quantify the migration of the component.Aims
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