ArticleEFORT open reviews2018
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: Current indications, technical issues and results.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
- Is unicompartmental knee arthroplasty a better choice than total knee arthroplasty for unicompartmental osteoarthritis? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Chinese medical journal · 2025Pooled it
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- The effect of obesity on revision rate in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2021Pooled it
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- Novel Application of an Imageless Robotic System in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Conversion, 1-Stage Revision, and 2nd-Stage Revision.The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2026Article
- Clinical outcomes following mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in patients with varying degrees of perioperative alignment change.Arthroplasty (London, England) · 2026Article
- Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: Mobile-bearing or Fixed-bearing?The archives of bone and joint surgery · 2026Article
- Indications of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and high tibial osteotomy would be different to achieve successful long-term outcome.Knee surgery & related research · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Functional Outcomes, Survivorship and Complications of Hypoallergenic Fixed-Bearing Medial and Lateral Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome as a novel therapeutic target for osteoarthritis.Inflammopharmacology · 2025Review
- The Minimum Clinically Important Difference of the Brief Pain Inventory During the Perioperative Period of Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective Observational Study.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Osteoarthritis: multitissue pathology, molecular mechanisms, clinical management, and emerging precision and regenerative therapies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Finite element study of stress distribution in medial UKA under varied lower limb alignment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mid-term outcomes of medial metal backed and all-polyethylene unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in obese patients: a retrospective propensity-matched analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Unicompartmental knee arthroplastyWorld journal of orthopedics · 2024Article
- Metal-backed or all-poly tibial components: which are better for medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty? A propensity-score-matching retrospective study at the 5-year follow-up.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2024Article
- First Italian Experience with the Oxinium Metal-Backed Fixed-Bearing Medial Journey II Unicompartmental Knee System: Promising Short-Term Outcomes of 145 Cases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- [Research progress of failure and revision of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2023Article
- Fast-track surgery and telerehabilitation protocol in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty leads to superior outcomes when compared with the standard protocol: a propensity-matched pilot study.Knee surgery & related research · 2022Article
- All-polyethylene unicompartmental knee arthroplasty is associated with increased risks of poorer knee society knee score and lower satisfaction in obese patients.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
An age younger than 60 years, a body weight of 180 lb (82 kg) or more, performing heavy work, having chondrocalcinosis and having exposed bone in the patellofemoral (PF) joint are not contraindications for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA).Severe wear of the lateral facet of the PF joint with bone loss and grooving is a contraindication for UKA.Medial UKA should only be performed in cases of severe osteoarthritis (OA) as shown in pre-operative X-rays, with medial bone-on-bone contact and a medial/lateral ratio of < 20%.The post-operative results of UKA are generally good. Medium-term and long-term studies have reported acceptable results at 10 years, with implant survival greater than 95% for UKAs performed for medial OA or osteonecrosis and for lateral UKA, especially when fixed-bearing implants are used.When all implant-related re-operations are considered, the 10-year survival rate is 94%, and the 15-year survival rate is 91%.Aseptic loosening is the principal failure mechanism in the first few years in mobile-bearing implants, whereas OA progression causes most failures in later years in fixed-bearing implants.The overall complication rate and the comprehensive re-operation rate are comparable in both mobile bearings and fixed bearings.The survival likelihood of the all-polyethylene UKA implant is similar to that of metal-backed modular designs for UKA.Notable cost savings of approximately 50% can be achieved with an outpatient UKA surgery protocol. Outpatient surgery for UKA is efficacious and safe, with satisfactory clinical results thus far. Cite this article:
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