Strategies for Revision Total Ankle Replacement

What is a revision of total ankle replacement?

Ankle arthrodesis for failed total ankle replacement.

Between 1999 and 2005, 23 failed total ankle replacements were converted to arthrodeses. Three surgical techniques were used: tibiotalar arthrodesis with screw fixation, tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis with screw fixation, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis with an intramedullary nail. As experience was gained, the benefits and problems became apparent. Successful bony union was seen in 17 of th...

Total ankle replacement

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. This issue of Acta Orthopaedica includes 3 articles on total ankle replacement (TAR), motivating this Guest Editorial (Nieuwe Weme et al. 2015, Kamrad et al. 2015, Hor...

Total Ankle Replacement in Varus Ankle Osteoarthritits

About 50% of the cases with degenerative osteoarthritis of the ankle are asymmetric. Varus ankle osteoarthritis is far more frequent than valgus ankle osteoarthritis. Most of the cases of ankle osteoarthritis have posttraumatic aetiology. It is important to understand the deformity completely, and to distinguish simple deviations in the coronal plane from more-dimensional, complex cavovarus def...

Total ankle replacement for posttraumatic arthritis

Supplementary article data (1/3) Table 4. Life table: survival of the 90 patients with revision, salvage fusion or reoperation as endpoint Postfracture OA Instability OA interval, entering with-of Survival rate entering with-of Survival rate months interval drawn events (%) (95% CI) interval drawn events (%) (95% CI) p-value interval, entering with-of Survival rate entering with-of Survival rat...