Abstract
The medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy (OW-HTO) is an accepted option to treat the isolated medial compartment osteoarthritis (OA) in varus knee. Despite satisfactory outcomes were described in literature, consistent complication rate has been reported and the provided accuracy of coronal alignment correction using conventional HTO techniques falls short.
Patient specific instrumentations has been introduced with the aim to reduce complications and to improve the intra-operative accuracy according to the pre-operative plan, which is responsible for the clinical result of the surgery.
In this talk, an overview of the clinical results of HTO patient specific instrumentation available in literature will be performed.
Moreover, preliminary intra-operative and clinical results of a new customised 3-D printed cutting guide and fixation plate for OW-HTO will be presented.
