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  1. Indications for total hip arthroplasty (THA) have evolved over recent decades, with a growing trend toward operating on younger and more active patients. With this shift in patient demographics, there has been...

    Authors: Maxime Maton, Emile Vandromme, Tatiana Charles, Bilal Kapanci and Marc Jayankura
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:56
  2. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are commonly performed orthopedic procedures. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 status on postoperative complications and mortal...

    Authors: Henry Hoang, Beshoy Gabriel, Brandon Lung, Steven Yang and Justin P. Chan
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:53
  3. Surgical site infection (SSI) is a major problem following total hip arthroplasty (THA). This study investigated the impact of a standard intraoperative routine where the surgical team wears full-body exhaust ...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Tateiwa, Toshinori Masaoka, Yasuhito Takahashi, Tsunehito Ishida, Takaaki Shishido and Kengo Yamamoto
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:49
  4. Good wound healing is critical to infection prophylaxis and satisfactory rehabilitation in Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). Currently, two techniques, i.e., barbed continuous subcuticular suture without skin adh...

    Authors: Te Liu, Ye Tao, Runkai Zhao, Yanfan Hua, Zeyu Feng, Qingyuan Zheng, Guoqiang Zhang, Lei Geng, Jun Fu, Wenwei Qian, Ming Ni and Weijun Wang
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:51
  5. UKA is a well-established treatment option for anteromedial osteoarthritis of the knee, resulting in superior functional outcomes but also higher revision rates than TKA. This study aimed to compare the outcom...

    Authors: Christian B. Scheele, Matthias F. Pietschmann, Thomas C. Wagner and Peter E. Müller
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:48
  6. Ligament tension balance is a major determinant for the success of total knee replacement (TKR). The present study aimed at determining the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability in performing ligament tensio...

    Authors: Dennis K. H. Yee, Jonathan T. C. Leung, Vikki Chu, Gene Man, Gloria Y. T. Lam, Jimmy K. Y. Lau, Tsz-Lung Choi, Wai-Wang Chau, Jonathan Patrick Ng, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, Kevin Ki-Wai Ho and Patrick Shu-Hang Yung
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:44
  7. The direct anterior approach is increasingly used for primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) due to its minimally invasive nature and rapid recovery time. Difficulties in identifying the correct intermuscular in...

    Authors: Giuseppe Geraci, Alberto Di Martino, Niccolò Stefanini, Matteo Brunello, Federico Ruta, Federico Pilla, Francesco Traina and Cesare Faldini
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:47
  8. One major goal of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is to achieve balanced medial and lateral gaps in flexion and extension. While bone resections are planned by the surgeon, soft tissue laxity is largely intrinsi...

    Authors: Travis R. Weiner, Roshan P. Shah, Alexander L. Neuwirth, Jeffrey A. Geller and H. John Cooper
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:45
  9. The Attune TKR was introduced in 2011 as a successor to its predicate design The PFC Sigma. However, following reports of early failures, there are ongoing concerns related to increased loosening rates. Given ...

    Authors: Bernard H. van Duren, Jonathan France, Reshid Berber, Hosam E. Matar, Peter J. James and Benjamin V. Bloch
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:46
  10. This study introduced an Augmented Reality (AR) navigation system to address limitations in conventional high tibial osteotomy (HTO). The objective was to enhance precision and efficiency in HTO procedures, ov...

    Authors: Elvis Chun-Sing Chui, Kyle Ka-Kwan Mak, Randy Hin-Ting Ng, Ericsson Chun-Hai Fung, Harold Hei-Ka Mak, Mei-Shuen Chan, Wei Zhao, Xiuyun Su, Jin Zhang, Jianglong Xu, Hongxun Sang, Guoxian Pei, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, Wing-Hoi Cheung, Sheung-Wai Law, Ronald Man Yeung Wong…
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:39
  11. Patient-reported outcome measures quantify outcomes from patients’ perspective with validated instruments. QuickDASH (Quick Disability of Arm, Shoulder and Hand, an upper extremity PROM) scores improve after c...

    Authors: Moritz J. Sharabianlou Korth, Wade A. Banta, Prerna Arora, Robin N. Kamal and Derek F. Amanatullah
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:42
  12. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a common surgical procedure that aims to relieve pain, improve function, and increase mobility in patients with hip joint pathology. One of the most challenging aspects of THA i...

    Authors: Kyle Goldstein, Wyatt Tyndall, Michaela E. Nickol and Johannes M. van der Merwe
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:41
  13. Both kinematically-aligned (KA) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and bicruciate stabilized (BCS) TKA aim to reproduce the physiological knee kinematics. In this study, we compared the femoro-tibial component rota...

    Authors: Kensuke Anjiki, Naoki Nakano, Kazunari Ishida, Koji Takayama, Masahiro Fujita, Tomoyuki Kamenaga, Masanori Tsubosaka, Yuichi Kuroda, Shinya Hayashi, Ryosuke Kuroda and Tomoyuki Matsumoto
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:40
  14. The second-generation metaphyseal cone was useful in managing bone defects in revision knee arthroplasty. However, due to the anatomical constraints in Asian osteometry, the authors utilized a novel free-hand ...

    Authors: Thomas Ka Chun Leung, Ping Keung Chan, Henry Fu, Amy Cheung, Michelle Hilda Luk, Lawrence Chun Man Lau and Kwong Yuen Chiu
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:35
  15. Mid-flexion instability has been identified as a cause for dissatisfaction following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Robotic-assisted surgery using the Mako robot only allows for assessment of stability at 10° ...

    Authors: Mateo Armendariz, Baha John Tadros, Dermot Collopy and Gavin Clark
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:32
  16. The use of long stems for severe femoral bone defects is suggested by many scholars, but it is associated with further bone loss, intraoperative fracture, increased surgical trauma, and complications. With bet...

    Authors: Yicheng Li, Xiaogang Zhang, Baochao Ji, Nuerailijiang Yushan, Wuhuzi Wulamu, Xiaobin Guo and Li Cao
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:38
  17. The functional integrity of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) influences surgical decision-making in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). This study aimed to compare the diagnostic value of radiography ...

    Authors: Zhenguo Yu, Hongqing Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Xin Dong, Jie Dong, Qingchen Liang and Fenglong Sun
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:37
  18. In total knee arthroplasty (TKA), achieving soft-tissue balance while retaining acceptable lower limb alignment is sometimes difficult and may lead to patient dissatisfaction. Theoretically, patient-specific i...

    Authors: Hanlong Zheng, Mingxue Chen, Dejin Yang, Hongyi Shao and Yixin Zhou
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:34
  19. Hip hemiarthroplasty (HHA) is one of the most common types of orthopedic surgery. With the prevalence and utilization of the surgery increasing year after year, this procedure is found to be associated with se...

    Authors: Nikit Venishetty, Jonathan Jose, Prabhudev Prasad A. Purudappa, Varatharaj Mounasamy and Senthil Sambandam
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:36
  20. The management of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) and surgical site infection (SSI) after joint arthroplasty poses a major challenge in orthopedic surgery. This Editorial provides an overview of the studi...

    Authors: Li Cao, Javad Parvizi, Xiaogang Zhang, Xianzhe Liu, Wierd P. Zijlstra and Saad Tarabichi
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:31
  21. Survivorship of medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is technique-dependent. Correct femoral-tibial component positioning associates with improved survivorship. Image-free robotic-assisted unicompar...

    Authors: Wai Hong Lau, Wai Kiu Thomas Liu, Kwong Yuen Chiu, Man Hong Cheung, Amy Cheung, Ping Keung Chan, Vincent Wai Kwan Chan and Henry Fu
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:33
  22. In the present study, the surgeon aimed to align the stem at 5° to 25° in anteversion. The robotic technology was used to measure stem anteversion with respect to proximal femur anteversion at different levels...

    Authors: Andrea Marcovigi, Gianluca Grandi, Luca Bianchi, Francesco Zambianchi, Marco Pavesi and Fabio Catani
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:27
  23. The high co-prevalence of obesity and end-stage osteoarthritis requiring arthroplasty, with the former being a risk factor for complications during arthroplasty, has led to increasing interest in employing pre...

    Authors: Lawrence Chun Man Lau, Ping Keung Chan, Tak Wai David Lui, Siu Wai Choi, Elaine Au, Thomas Leung, Michelle Hilda Luk, Amy Cheung, Henry Fu, Man Hong Cheung and Kwong Yuen Chiu
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:30
  24. Implant impingement and soft tissue tension are factors involved in dislocation after total hip arthroplasty (THA). Combined anteversion (CA) has been used as an indicator for implant placement. However, optim...

    Authors: Ryo Hidaka, Kenta Matsuda, Shigeru Nakamura, Masaki Nakamura and Hirotaka Kawano
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:22
  25. Artificial intelligence (AI) uses computer systems to simulate cognitive capacities to accomplish goals like problem-solving and decision-making. Machine learning (ML), a branch of AI, makes algorithms find co...

    Authors: Amir H. Karimi, Joshua Langberg, Ajith Malige, Omar Rahman, Joseph A. Abboud and Michael A. Stone
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:26
  26. Controversy remains over whether different surgical approaches exert an impact on the component positioning in total hip arthroplasty. We conducted a retrospective study to reveal the long-term position of pro...

    Authors: Weilin Sang, Peng Lai, Xun Xu, Yu Liu, Jinzhong Ma and Libo Zhu
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:25
  27. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate closer-to-normal knee kinematics following primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) performed establishing asymmetric gap balancing intraoperatively.

    Authors: Pieralberto Valpiana, Andrea Giordano Salvi, Stefano Ghirardelli, Matteo Bernardi, Giuseppe Petralia, Giuseppe Aloisi, Christian Schaller and Pier Francesco Indelli
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:29
  28. Modern cementless total knee arthroplasty (TKA) fixation has shown comparable long-term outcomes to cemented TKA, but the trend of using cementless TKA remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the tren...

    Authors: Amil R. Agarwal, Emile-Victor Kuyl, Alex Gu, Gregory J. Golladay, Savyasachi C. Thakkar, Gautam Siram, Anthony Unger and Sandesh Rao
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:24
  29. Mental and psychiatric status continue to be underscreened prior to total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Research on the role of resilience as a psychiatric factor affecting TJA outcomes remains limited. Therefore,...

    Authors: Andrew G. Kim, Parshva Sanghvi, Adam A. Rizk, Aaron Ahn, Thomas J. Pumo and Atul F. Kamath
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:16
  30. The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) attachment may be damaged in cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (CR-TKA) using the complete resection for tibial preparation, and resection amount varies greatly a...

    Authors: Weiwei Xin, Yingjian Gao, Liangjun Zheng, Xinhua Qu and Bing Yue
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:19
  31. Obesity adversely impacts outcomes of total hip arthroplasty (THA), leading surgeons to impose body mass index cutoffs for patient eligibility and encourage preoperative weight loss. This study aimed to determ...

    Authors: Jessica Schmerler, Nauman Hussain, Shyam J. Kurian, Harpal S. Khanuja, Julius K. Oni and Vishal Hegde
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:13
  32. The gold standard to decrease total joint arthroplasty (TJA) periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis. Despite substantial prevention efforts, rates of PJIs are increasing. W...

    Authors: Sandeep S. Bains, Jeremy A. Dubin, Daniel Hameed, Zhongming Chen, Mallory C. Moore, Ashesh Shrestha, James Nace and Ronald E. Delanois
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:20
  33. Few Australian studies have examined the incidence of prescribed opioid use prior to primary total knee or total hip arthroplasty (TKA, THA) and whether it predicts post-surgery outcomes. A recent Australian s...

    Authors: Furkan Genel, Ian A. Harris, Natalie Pavlovic, Adriane Lewin, Rajat Mittal, Andrew Y. Huang, Jonathan Penm, Asad E. Patanwala, Bernadette Brady, Sam Adie and Justine M. Naylor
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:11
  34. Body mass index (BMI) has been shown to influence risk for revision total hip arthroplasty (rTHA), but few studies have specifically examined which causes of rTHA are most likely in different BMI classes. We h...

    Authors: Jessica Schmerler, Victoria E. Bergstein, William ElNemer, Andrew B. Harris, Harpal S. Khanuja, Uma Srikumaran and Vishal Hegde
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:9
  35. The coronal plane alignment of the knee (CPAK) classification was first developed using long leg radiographs (LLR) and has since been reported using image-based and imageless robotic total knee arthroplasty (T...

    Authors: Adam I. Edelstein, Alexander D. Orsi, Christopher Plaskos, Simon Coffey and Linda I. Suleiman
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:14
  36. Limb-salvage surgery involving the utilization of endoprosthetic replacements is commonly employed following segmental bone resection for primary and secondary bone tumors. This study aimed to evaluate whether...

    Authors: Jonathan Stevenson, M. Ather Siddiqi, Vicky Sheehy, Ben Kendrick, Duncan Whitwell, Adrian Taylor, Gordon Blunn, Hasan R. Mohammad, Atul F. Kamath and Sofia Thoma
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:17
  37. We investigated the effect of obesity on the association of genome-wide associative studies (GWAS)-significant genes with the risk of knee osteoarthritis (KOA).

    Authors: Vitaly Novakov, Olga Novakova, Maria Churnosova, Inna Aristova, Marina Ponomarenko, Yuliya Reshetnikova, Vladimir Churnosov, Inna Sorokina, Irina Ponomarenko, Olga Efremova, Valentina Orlova, Irina Batlutskaya, Alexey Polonikov, Evgeny Reshetnikov and Mikhail Churnosov
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:12
  38. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a serious complication after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Although some risk factors of PJI were well studied, the association between trauma and PJI remains unknown ...

    Authors: Hao Li, Qingyuan Zheng, Erlong Niu, Jiazheng Xu, Wei Chai, Chi Xu, Jun Fu, Libo Hao, Jiying Chen and Guoqiang Zhang
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:8
  39. This study aimed to develop a modified frailty index (MFI) to predict the risks of revision total hip arthroplasty (THA).

    Authors: David Momtaz, Shawn Okpara, Armando Martinez, Tucker Cushing, Abdullah Ghali, Rishi Gonuguntla, Travis Kotzur, Anthony Duruewuru, Madison Harris, Ali Seifi and Melvyn Harrington
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:7
  40. Multiple joint arthritis patterns require a comprehensive understanding to optimize patient management. This study aimed to present a patient cohort that deviated from known definitions of coxitis knee (CK), i...

    Authors: Patricio III Dumlao, Kiminori Yukata, Yutaka Suetomi, Atsunori Tokushige, Takashi Sakai and Hiroshi Fujii
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:10
  41. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a commonly performed procedure to alleviate pain and improve functional limitations caused by end-stage joint damage. Effective management of postoperative pain following TKA ...

    Authors: Aurora Quaye, Brian McAllister, Joseph R. Garcia, Orion Nohr, Sarah J. Laduzenski, Lucy Mack, Christine R. Kerr, Danielle A. Kerr, Charonne N. Razafindralay, Janelle M. Richard, Wendy Y. Craig and Stephen Rodrigue
    Citation: Arthroplasty 2024 6:6

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