
Updates on Total Ankle Replacement, An issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 29-1 - February 6, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Mark E. Easley
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 1 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 4 2 0 - 8
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics, guest editor Dr. Mark Easley brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Updates on Total Ankle Replacement. Top experts in the field cover total ankle arthroplasty outcomes assessed through gait analysis; total ankle arthroplasty in younger patients; outcomes of lateral transfibular approach for total ankle replacement; outcomes of staged versus simultaneous total ankle replacement; outcomes of total ankle arthroplasty after reoperation; and more.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including interpreting outcomes measures in total ankle research; results of total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis; diagnosing and managing infection in total ankle replacement; complications in total ankle replacement; outcomes of revision total ankle replacement; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on total ankle replacement, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Foot and Ankle Surgeons; Orthopedics
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Quality of Outcomes Research in Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Key points
- Introduction, history, definitions, and background
- Our methods of assessing relevant outcomes research
- Results
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Clinical Outcomes and Registry Data in Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Key points
- Introduction
- Implants, patient-reported outcome metrics, and follow-up in total ankle arthroplasty clinical outcome studies
- Total ankle arthroplasty registries
- A roadmap for the future
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Results of Total Ankle Arthroplasty Versus Ankle Arthrodesis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Ankle arthrodesis results in the year 2022
- Total ankle arthroplasty results in the year 2022
- Comparative studies of ankle arthrodesis versus total ankle arthroplasty in the years 2021 and 2022
- Patients’ point of view on the long-term results
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Total Ankle Arthroplasty in Young Patients
- Key points
- Introduction
- Fusion versus Replacement
- Total Ankle Arthroplasty Implant Design and Longevity
- Total Ankle Arthroplasty Revision Outcomes
- Ankle Arthrodesis Takedown to Arthroplasty
- Outcomes of Younger Patients Undergoing Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Outcomes of Lateral Transfibular Approach for Total Ankle Replacement
- Key points
- Overview
- Lateral transfibular approach
- Outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Outcomes of Total Ankle Replacement with Preoperative Varus Deformity
- Key points
- Introduction
- Deformity types
- Deformity correction
- Deformity Distally to the Tibiotalar Joint After TAR is Treated, Depending on the Cause
- Results of TAR in ankles with preoperative neutral versus non-neutral alignment
- Results of TAR in ankles with preoperative varus alignment
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Future directions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Bilateral Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Hip and knee arthroplasty literature
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Outcomes of Total Ankle Arthroplasty After Reoperation due to Gutter Impingement
- Key points
- Introduction
- Causes of gutter impingement
- Indication of surgical treatment
- Outcomes of reoperation for gutter impingement
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Conflict of interest
- Outcomes of Total Ankle Arthroplasty After Periprosthetic Cyst Curettage and Bone Grafting
- Key points
- Introduction
- Types of cysts
- Special investigations
- Management of periprosthetic cysts
- The authors’ management protocol
- Outcomes of bone grafting periprosthetic bone cysts
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diagnosing and Managing Infection in Total Ankle Replacement
- Key points
- Background and definitions
- Presurgical diagnostics
- Intraoperative diagnostics
- Typical bacteria in total ankle replacement infection
- Surgical management of total ankle replacement infection
- Antibiotics
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Complications in Total Ankle Replacement
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Outcomes of Conversion of Ankle Fusion to Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Procedural approach
- Postoperative care
- Discussion and outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Outcomes of Revision Total Ankle Replacement
- Key points
- Background
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 29-1
- Published: February 6, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443184192
- eBook ISBN: 9780443184208
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Mark E. Easley
Affiliations and expertise
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA