BACKGROUND Precise preoperative measurement of knee alignment is needed to calculate the accurate angle of correction at proximal tibia osteotomy for medial gonarthrosis. METHODS We performed a prospective study to compare the reproducibility of measuring the mechanical and anatomical axes. Thirty-two patients (32 knees) with medial compartment osteoarthritis to be treated with proximal tibia...

The total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the gold standard for patients with an advanced symptomatic gonarthrosis. However, there are very few publications dealing with the primary TKA for patients with a proximal tibia fracture. In our retrospective study we evaluated 30 patients treated with a TKA for a proximal tibia fracture in our institution between 01/2008 and 12/2014. We collected the follo...

Background. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is currently the "gold standard" in the treatment of advanced gonarthrosis. Improved range of motion, reduced pain, and correction of the limb axis, which are the main treatment goals, depend on proper surgical technique. The usable life of the knee prosthesis and the patient's comfort are the main criteria for evaluating long-term surgical outcome in T...

The article presents new views on the treatment of pain syndromes in musculoskeletal diseases, particular osteoarthritis (OA) various localizations (gonarthrosis, coxarthrosis). New recommendations (2019–2020) international societies for study symptomatic delayedacting drugs (SYSADOA) and their use OA are presented. We present opinions experts from different communities: American College Rheuma...

Lactococcus garvieae is known as a Gram-positive, catalase-negative, and facultatively anaerobic fish pathogen. The association between Lactococcus spp. and human infectious diseases is described as being mainly associated with lumbar osteomyelitis, hepatic abscess, and infective endocarditis. In the literature of orthopedic post-prosthetic infections, L. garvieae was associated with a case of ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Early migration of joint replacements is an effect of poor fixation and can predict late loosening. By reducing the bone resorption after implantation of a joint replacement, it should be possible to enhance the initial fixation of the implant. We studied the effect of once-weekly treatment with alendronate after knee replacement. PATIENTS AND METHODS We recruited 60 pa...

PURPOSE The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the medium-term clinical and radiological results after navigated cementless implantation, without patella resurfacing, of a total knee endoprosthesis with tibial and femoral press-fit components, with a focus on survival rate and clinical outcome. The innovation is the non-cemented fixation together with the use of a navigation sy...

A 79-year-old female patient with coxarthrosis and gonarthrosis had been taking Diclofenac for 10 years. She reported asthenia, abdominal pain in the le upper quadrant and two self-limited episodes of hematochezia in the ve previous months. She had microcytic, hypochromic, sideropenic anemia (hemoglobin: 9.0 g/dL) in spite of several previous packed red blood cells transfusions. Upper endoscopy...

INTRODUCTION We investigated whether there were any differences in the frequency and severity of pin site infections by performing pin site care daily or once a week. We studied patients operated on for gonarthrosis by the hemicallotasis technique, using hydroxyapatite-coated pins in the metaphyseal bone and standard pins in the diaphyseal bone. PATIENTS AND METHODS 50 patients were prospecti...