High Revision and Reoperation Rates Using the AgilityTM Total Ankle System

Failed AgilityTM LP Total Ankle Replacement with Severe >40° Varus Deformity Revision with Prosthesis Conversion and Soft-Tissue Procedures Alone

Achieving frontal plane alignment of the ankle joint during primary and revision total ankle replacement is essential for long-term success. This manuscript presents the revision of a failed AgilityTM LP total ankle replacement system with severe > 40° varus ankle deformity that was corrected with explanation and conversion to an INBONETM II total ankle system coupled with soft-tissue release/r...

Primary and revision total hip replacement using the Robodoc system.

The ROBODOC system was designed to address potential human errors in performing cementless total hip replacement. The system consists of a preoperative planning computer workstation (called ORTHODOC) and a five-axis robotic arm with a high speed milling device as an end effector. The combined experience of the United States Food and Drug Administration multicenter trial and the German postmarke...

Quality measures for total ankle replacement, 30-day readmission and reoperation rates within 1 year of surgery: a data linkage study using the NJR data set

OBJECTIVE To report on the rate of 30-day readmission and the rate of additional or revision surgery within 12 months following total ankle replacement (TAR). DESIGN A data-linkage study of the UK National Joint Registry (NJR) data and Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) database. These two databases were linked in a deterministic fashion. HES episodes 12 months following the index procedure w...

What is a revision of total ankle replacement?

Revision arthrodesis of the ankle

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2011.570676 We present a 4 cannulated screw compression technique with use of additional cerclage in 4 patients with nonunion after primary ankle ...