Primary ArthroplastyRotating Hinge Implants for Complex Primary and Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
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Methods
After institutional review board approval, the database of the senior authors, all fellowship trained in adult reconstruction, was queried for cases using an RHK of a single design (NexGen RHK; Zimmer, Warsaw, IN), between the years 2003 and 2014. Inclusion criteria were all nononcological primary and revision indications. Exclusion criteria were cases involving the use of a distal femoral replacement (15 procedures).
There were 79 knees in 76 patients who underwent an RHK for either a complex
Results
At a minimum of 2 years, 13 patients had died and 4 were lost to follow-up leaving 62 knees in 59 patients who were followed for a mean of 55.2 months (range 24-146). This included 8 failures prior to 2 years. There were no known complications among the 4 patients who were lost to follow-up prior to 2 years (mean follow-up 6 months, range 1-13). Similarly, the mean follow-up among the 13 patients who died without a minimum of 2-year clinical follow-up was 6.8 months (range 1-18) with no known
Discussion
Hinged knee implants are a powerful tool in the knee surgeon's armamentarium; however, there is hesitation over their use given few reports that describe outcomes of contemporary designs. Specific concerns include high forces at the fixation interfaces and bearing surfaces although we found these complications to be rare. That being said, the overall complication rate in this complex series of patients was high.
We found an overall postoperative complication rate of 38.7%, which is relatively
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2022, Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and ResearchCitation Excerpt :In France, the HKA angle is used to estimate the cost of the procedure and therefore the cost reimbursed by the statutory health insurance system. The HKA angle also directs the choice of the surgical approach and, in patients with marked deformities, allows anticipation of the need for a semi-constrained or hinged prosthesis [9–12] After TKA, the LSR serves to check the coronal alignment of the lower limb, the goal in terms of mechanical axis alignment being a value of 180° ± 3° to minimise the risk of mechanical loosening [13,14]. However, numerous factors can influence the value of the HKA angle on the LSR, including rotation of the hip and/or leg and lower limb deformities in the sagittal plane (flexion or recurvatum deformity) [15–18].
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