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The number of patients submitted each year to knee replacement surgery has constantly risen, until it has even exceeded that of patients submitted to hip replacement. The development of studies on biomechanics, on prosthetic design, and on materials used has led to further improvement of implants. The volume has been divided into five parts, each including several chapters assigned to renowned specialists who deal in an organic and modern manner with the most significant problems of knee replacement surgery. The authors have taken into consideration the biomechanical features, the indications, and the surgical methods used. Furthermore, particular attention is paid to the selection of prostheses and to the attempts to reduce polyethylene wear and stress at the prosthesis/bone or prosthesis/cement/bone interface. A rise in indications for the treatment of degenerative pathology of the knee through the prosthesis has inevitably led to a rise in surgical and mechanical co mplications, and thus to a rise in the number of revisions. Therefore, a wide review of the most common complications and surgical techniques that may be adopted in these cases is presented. The editors have gathered the experience of internationally renowned authors who present the current state of the art on knee arthroplasty.
List of contents
Section 1 - Biomechanics.- 1 Knee Biomechanics and Prosthetic Design.- 2 Prosthetic Design and Patellofemoral Function.- Section 2 - Surgical Technique.- 3 Preoperative Planning and Prosthetic Selection.- 4 Surgical Approaches.- 5 Soft-Tissue Balancing.- 6 Patellofemoral Joint.- 7 Bone Grafting in Primary and Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 8 Total Knee Arthroplasty Following High Tibial Osteotomy.- 9 Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Stiff Knee.- Section 3 - Prosthetic selection.- 10 Unicompartimental Knee Arthroplasty.- 11 The Posterior Cruciate Ligament and Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 12 Posterior Cruciate Ligament-Substituting Total Knee Arthroplasty: Rationale and Results.- 13 Meniscal-Bearing Knee Arthroplasty.- 14 Total Internal Constraint Prosthesis.- Section 4 - Complications.- 15 Wound Complications in Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 16 Mechanical Loosening of Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 17 Treatment of the Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 18 Periprosthetic Fractures.- 19 Prophylaxis of Deep Vein Thrombosis After Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Section 5 - Miscellanea.- 20 Blood Management in Knee Arthroplasty.- 21 Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty.- 22 Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Summary
The volume is divided into five parts, each including several chapters assigned to internationally renowned specialists who deal in an organic and modern manner with the most significant problems of knee replacement surgery. The authors have taken into consideration the biomechanical features, the indications, and the surgical methods used. Furthermore, particular attention is paid to the selection of prostheses and to the attempts to reduce polyethylene wear and stress at the prosthesis/bone or prosthesis/cement/bone interface.
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"... this textbook has the potential to become a standard reference for trainee surgeons who wish to specialise in lower limb arthroplasty." European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology Volume 13, No. 2, 6/2003
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"... this textbook has the potential to become a standard reference for trainee surgeons who wish to specialise in lower limb arthroplasty." European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology Volume 13, No. 2, 6/2003
