Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Indications, Surgical Techniques
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) - also known as unicondylar knee arthroplasty or partial knee replacement - is an excellent surgical option for the treatment of isolated medial, lateral and patellofemoral compartment arthritis of the knee, as lon
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Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty
Tad L. Gerlinger Editor
Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Indications, Surgical Techniques and Complications
Editor Tad L. Gerlinger Adult Reconstruction Division Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL USA
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Foreword
I have professed the benefits of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) at meetings and courses to trainees and thousands of surgeons for 20 years. My strong belief in the patients’ benefits of UKA makes it a great honor to write this foreword. I believe UKA is the most rewarding surgery in all of arthroplasty; done correctly in the right patient, it has the capacity to return patients to a pre- arthritic state where they forget they had arthritis and have a replacement. It becomes a “normal knee” again. As my mentor Jorge Galante told me many times, “Patients may like their total knee, but patients love their Uni and forget they have it!”. Jorge taught me about UKA, and I have had the good fortune to pass it to the surgeons that I have trained. The idea of a partial knee replacement for arthritis has been around for a long time, first with Campbell in the 1940s and then with McKeever and MacIntosh in the late 1950s and 1960s. However, most would say the modern UKA era started in the early 1970s with Marmor, who reported a high success rate in his patients. Not long after, the St. Georg Sled was introduced in Europe and also demonstrated good results. Unfortunately, with the initial success and enthusiasm of th
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