ArticleArchives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery2024
The effect of high tibial osteotomy and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty on patellofemoral joint in young patients with medial knee arthrosis.
Article in Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- How to choose treatment for patients who are eligible for both unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and high tibial osteotomy?Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2026Review
- Clinical outcomes of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in early osteoarthritis without bone-on-bone contact.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionOsteoarthritis of the knee is a debilitating disease. In most cases, only the medial compartments are affected. High tibial osteotomy (HTO) and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) are the two main procedures commonly used in the surgical treatment of unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis patients not responding to conservative treatment. The aim of our study was to compare UKA and biplanar medial open-wedge HTO in terms of patellofemoral changes and functional score in patients under 60 years of age with medial compartment arthrosis. MATERIALS AND
methodsA retrospective study. A total of 79 patients (37 HTO, 42 UKA) who received one of the two treatments in a single center were examined preoperatively and at a single postoperative follow-up. Posterior tibial slope, lateral patellofemoral angle (LPFA), Q-angle, patellar height, Cincinnati Rating System and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) functional scores were evaluated in all patients preoperatively and at the 6-month follow-up examination.
resultsInsall-Salvati ratio remained stable in the HTO group, while there was a minor decrease in the UKA group and the changes between the groups were not statistically significant. Caton-Deschamps ratio increased in the UKA group and decreased in the HTO group, and this change was statistically significant (p < 0.001). LPFA did not change in the UKA group in the postoperative period, while it increased in the HTO group (p < 0.001). Changes in Q angle and Cincinnati Rating System scores were statistically similar between the UKA and HTO groups (p = 0.827 and p = 0.340).
conclusionsIn our study, biplanar medial open-wedge HTO and UKA performed with appropriate surgical technique had no negative effect on patellofemoral joint. In patients under 60 years of age with medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee, both surgical treatments can be performed with appropriate patient selection.
Indexed as
Identifiers
39271496What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.