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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 105-B, Issue SUPP_13 | Pages 57 - 57
7 Aug 2023
Gill J Brimm D McMeniman P McMeniman T Myers P
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Abstract

Introduction

Patient selection is key to the success of medial unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA). Progression of arthritis is the most common indication for revision. Various methods of assessing the lateral compartment have been used including stress radiography, radioisotope bone scanning, MRI, and visualisation at the time of surgery. Arthroscopy is another means of assessing the integrity of the lateral compartment.

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We used per-operative arthroscopy as a means to confirm suitability for UKA in a consecutive series of 279 Oxford medial UKA. This study reports the long-term results of a previously published cohort of knees. Our series of UKA with per-operative arthroscopy (Group 1) was compared to all Oxford UKA (Group 2) and all UKA in the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry (AOANJRR) (Group 3).


Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 87-B, Issue SUPP_III | Pages 346 - 346
1 Sep 2005
Hunt N Watts M Hayes D Owen J McMeniman T Amato D McMeniman P Myers P
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Introduction and Aims: Treatment options for medial gonarthrosis include high tibial osteotomy (HTO). There has been a shift towards opening wedge techniques partially due a perceived higher complication rate with closing wedge techniques. This has not been our experience and we describe the outcome of a large series of closing wedge HTOs.

Method: We reviewed the case records of 313 patients who underwent a total of 374 closing wedge high tibial osteotomies by three surgeons for medial compartment gonarthrosis between 1989 and 2003. The mean outpatient follow-up was 16 months and the mean time post-surgery was 66 months. We identified any post-operative complications and the early clinical outcome including those known to have proceeded to joint replacement. The mean age of patient was 52 years (range 19–72). In all patients a laterally based wedge, mean size nine degrees (range 4–18), was excised and the osteotomy stabilised with one or two stepped staples.

Results: Outcome following closing wedge osteotomy was generally good, only six percent of patients complained of continuing knee pain, although not at a level that required further intervention. Symptoms in 3.5% of knees deteriorated and required total knee replacement at a mean of 63 months (range 16–112) following osteotomy. No intra-operative difficulties were encountered with these replacements. The complication rate was acceptable with an overall rate of 7.8%. One patient required revision shortly after surgery due to inadequate initial correction and one developed a transient peroneal nerve neuropraxia. There were no other neurovascular or intra-operative complications recorded. All the osteotomies united, although nine patients had delayed union, taking a mean of five months for their osteotomies to unite. Other complications included: five patients who had staples removed due to irritation, one who developed a stitch abscess and one who developed a deep wound infection. Two knees had a reduced ROM and required an MUA. In addition, six patients developed symptomatic DVTs, three with pulmonary emboli, but there were no deaths.

Conclusion: In our experience, closing wedge osteotomy for medial gonarthrosis is a safe and reliable procedure with a good early outcome and an acceptable complication rate of 7.8% in this series, with a low incidence of serious complications that compares favourably with the quoted complication rates for opening wedge techniques.