ArticleInternational orthopaedics2015
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty is effective: ten year results.
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- Patient-specific vs. Oxford microplasty instrumentation in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of medical research · 2025Trial
- Long-term survivorship after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: the influence of medical comorbidities and previous knee surgery.International orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Preoperative Anxiety and Depression Are Associated with Lateral Compartment Osteoarthritis Progression After Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Age-stratified risk of major systemic complications following unicompartmental versus total knee arthroplasty: a nationwide cohort study.Knee surgery & related research · 2026Article
- Preoperative Central Sensitization Worsens Pain and Dissatisfaction Following Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Metal-backed versus all-poly tibia in the original cartier unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: outcomes and survivorship at long-term follow-up.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Reducing edge loading and alignment outliers with image-free robotic-assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a case controlled study.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2024Article
- How Useful Is Preoperative Aspiration before Revision of Unicompartmental Knee Prostheses Because of Osteoarthritis in the Other Compartments?Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Painful Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: Etiology, Diagnosis and Management.The archives of bone and joint surgery · 2024Review
- Unicompartmental knee arthroplasties: does the type of tibial component selected influence implant survival?Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Robotic arm-assisted unicondylar knee arthroplasty resulted in superior radiological accuracy: a propensity score-matched analysis.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2023Article
- Advantages of Simultaneous Cementless Bilateral Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty Compared to Staged Surgery.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2023Article
- A well performing medial fixed bearing UKA with promising survivorship at 15 years.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Can bone scintigraphy reflect the progression of osteoarthritis after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?PloS one · 2023Article
- Potential risk of medial cortex perforation due to peg position of morphometric tibial component in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a computer simulation study.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Article
- 5-Year Survivorship and Outcomes of Robotic-Arm-Assisted Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2022Article
- Rapidly progressive osteoarthritis in the medial patellar facet due to lateral femoral placement after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2021Article
- Bearing failure in a mobile bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: an uncommon presentation of an implant-specific complication.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2021Article
- A novel extramedullary technique to guide femoral bone preparation in mobile unicompartmental knee arthroplasty based on tibial cut and overall alignment.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeUnicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) presents low morbidity and complication risk and provides excellent outcomes and fast recovery. Despite these facts, knee-replacement registries have shown high failure rates for UKA, especially when compared with traditional TKA. The purpose of this study was therefore to report outcomes, complications, and ten year survivorship rate of medial ZUK unicompartmental knee prosthesis.
methodsWe retrospectively analysed 136 medial UKAs in 124 patients, with a maximum follow-up of ten years. Patients were assessed through the International Knee Society (IKS) scores and range of motion (ROM). A complete X-ray study was performed in all patients. Limb alignment was assessed by measuring the femorotibial mechanical alignment. At surgery, bone resections were performed according to proximal tibial epiphyseal axis.
resultsMean IKS knee score improved from 45.7 (range 35-63) points preoperatively to 87.2 (range 71-100) points at the latest follow-up. Mean IKS function score improved from 50.9 (range 40-70) points to 89.1 (range 75-100) points (p < 0.05). Mean ROM increased from 106.1° (range 98-123°) to 128.6° (range 116-139°) (p < 0.01). Four cases (2.9 %) were revised due to failure for any cause, so that survivorship was 97.1 % at the latest follow-up.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates excellent outcomes and survivorship for the ZUK unicompartmental knee prosthesis. Based on our findings, we believe that the ZUK prosthesis offers an effective and durable solution for treating medial degeneration of the knee. Level of Evidence IV - Retrospective case series study.
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