Structural allograft impaction enables fast rehabilitation in opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy: a consecutive case series with one year follow-up.

Purpose: Painful and slow recovery are the presumed disadvantages after opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) and play a role in favouring arthroplasty as treatment for moderate isolated medial knee arthritis. The primary study objective was to investigate the effect of press-fit structural impacted bone allograft with locking plate fixation on early ambulation, postoperative pain levels, and resumption of daily-life activities in opening-wedge HTO.

Methods: A prospective consecutive opening-wedge HTO case series was conducted, including 103 patients with final follow-up at 1 year.

Treatment of severe glenoid deficiencies in reverse shoulder arthroplasty: the Glenius Glenoid Reconstruction System experience.

Background: The treatment of glenoid bone deficiencies in primary or revision total shoulder arthroplasty is challenging. This retrospective study evaluated the short-term clinical and radiologic results of a new custom-made patient-specific glenoid implant.

Methods: We treated 10 patients with severe glenoid deficiencies with the Glenius Glenoid Reconstruction System (Materialise NV, Leuven, Belgium).

Arthroscopic bone block augmentation of the anterior glenoid through the rotator interval: a cadaveric feasibility study.

Hypothesis: Arthroscopic augmentation of the anterior glenoid using a free bone graft through the rotator interval is possible without compromising the fixation and position of the graft

Material And Methods: In 7 cadavers arthroscopic augmentation of the anterior glenoid was performed. A preshaped, free graft was introduced and fixated with 1 central screw without desinsertion or split of the subscapularis tendon. Postoperatively, the orientation and position of the screw and position of the graft in the vertical and horizontal plane were analyzed on computer tomography (CT) scan.