Implanting an articulating spacer during revision for an infected total knee arthroplasty may provide patients with acceptable function and help avoid second-stage surgery, according to a study.

Revision knee replacement surgeries are becoming not so uncommon primarily due to increased conditions like infections following primary knee replacement. There is a high probability that the number ...

In the last five years, there has been an increase in the number of joint replacement surgeries. Knee diseases are currently on the rise in India. More than 15 crore Indians, according to a recent ...

When treating infection after total knee arthroplasty, one expert offered the following rule of thumb: perform aggressive early debridement for acute infections, and for established infection, move on ...

Knee replacement is a widely performed procedure for the management of knee arthritis. According to the 9th National Joint Registry report 79,516 knee replacements were undertaken in the UK in 2011.

Smith+Nephew announced that it conducted its first robotically guided revision procedures in patients who have undergone total knee replacements, using its Cori surgical system. Following the handheld ...

OsteoRemedies, LLC, a company focused on providing simple solutions to complex disorders, has announced the full commercial launch of the Remedy Stemmed Knee Spacer at the 2019 American Association of ...

A hip or knee replacement can last 15 years on average, 30 years with newer technology. But sometimes a replacement might not hold that long when implants become loose or develop inflections. This is ...

Knee replacement surgery, also known as total knee arthroplasty (TKA), is increasing among patients 65 and younger. One study projects a potential 183% increase in the number of TKA and revision TKA ...

University of Queensland research has revealed Australians undergoing a knee replacement operation are at a higher risk of needing further surgery if they're obese. Researchers from The University of ...

Robotic systems have no effect on the two-year revision rate in cementless total knee replacement patients, an analysis of registry data found. The data, which was shared Monday at the 2024 Annual ...

During your initial knee or hip replacement surgery, the prosthetic (artificial) components were either cemented (attached with bone cement) or hammered into the bone so they could eventually attach ...