The Avon Patellofemoral Joint Replacement: Mid-Term Prospective Results from an Independent Centre.

Background: Approximately 10% of patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee have unicompartmental OA confined to the patellofemoral joint (PFJ). The main surgical options are total knee replacement (TKR) and PFJ replacement (PFJR). PFJR has a number of advantages over TKR, including being less invasive, preserving the unaffected parts of the knee, allowing faster recovery and better range of motion and function.

Patient satisfaction and clinical results at a mean eight years following BHR arthroplasty: results from a district general hospital.

We present the clinical and radiological results of a prospective study of a consecutive series of patients treated with the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) prosthesis between 1999 and 2006 and followed for six to 12 years. Patients were reviewed preoperatively and six, 12, 26 and 52 weeks postoperatively and annually thereafter. They were assessed clinically and radiographically and the Merle d'Aubigne Postel and Oxford Hip scores were calculated at each visit.

A retrospective medium- to long-term results of 1500 AGC total knee replacements - An independent centre functional follow up and survivorship.

Background: The AGC knee is one of the most widely used knee replacements in the world with good survivorship in national joint registries, including the Swedish within which it remains the gold standard of risk.

Purpose: However, there are few long term survivorship reviews from the centre other than those affiliated with the designer that also offer any insight into functional outcome. In this review, we present the results of one of the largest non-designer, medium- to long term follow-ups of the AGC knee replacement.

A multidisciplinary enhanced recovery programme allows discharge within two days of total hip replacement; three- to five-year results of 100 patients.

We present three- to five- year results of 100 sequential patients undergoing total hip replacement (THR) through a multidisciplinary rapid recovery programme, with mean length of stay (LOS) 1.99 nights. Patients attend pre-admission 'bone school', with talks and assessments by the senior sister, physiotherapist and occupational therapist.

Manipulation under anaesthesia post total knee replacement: long term follow up.

A reduced range of motion post total knee replacement (TKR) is a recognised problem. Manipulation under anaesthesia (MUA) is commonly performed in the stiff post-operative TKR. Long-term results are variable in the literature.

A comparison of two techniques for knee arthrodesis: the custom made intramedullary Mayday nail versus a monoaxial external fixator.

The most common indication for knee arthrodesis is pain and instability in an unreconstructable knee following an infected knee arthroplasty. In this study, we compare the use of the Mayday arthrodesis nail (Orthodynamics, Christchurch, UK) versus external fixation, Orthofix (Berkshire UK) and Stryker Hoffman II (County Cork, Ireland). All patients in this study underwent arthrodesis between 1995 and 2006 at Conquest Hospital, Hastings.