Abstract
The purpose of the study was to review and present a series of early failures of the Miller Galante unicom-partmental knee replacement (UKR). Following several early failures all Miller Galante UKR’s inserted by the author (60 patients, 72 knees) were recalled for clinical and radiological review including assessment using the American Knee Society Score and the Oxford Knee Score. All knees with effusions were aspirated and specimens sent for histological analysis.
There were 22 females and 38 males with a mean age of 67 years. The mean follow up was 3.4 years. Six failures were noted with follow up from 10 months to 4 years. These 6 cases will be discussed in more detail including operative findings at revision and possible reasons for failure.
Early failure of this arthroplasty is unacceptable and caution should be exercised if contemplating using this implant unless more definite causative factors are identified.
Correspondence should be addressed to the editorial secretary: Associate Professor Jean-Claude Theis, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Dunedin Hospital, Private Bag 1921, Dunedin, New Zealand.
