AAOS: Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty does not reduce early revision
McKnight’s Senior Living February 20, 2024
(HealthDay News) — Robotic assistance does not reduce the risk for two-year, all-cause revision or aseptic loosening in cementless total knee arthroplasty (TKA) when compared with conventional arthroplasty, according to a study presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, held from Feb. 12 to 16 in San Francisco.
Gregory J. Kirchner, MD, from the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and colleagues used the American Joint Replacement Registry to identify 9,220 patients with osteoarthritis, aged 65 years and older, who underwent primary TKA from January 2017 through March 2020 with cementless femur and tibial components. Conventional TKA was compared with robotic-assisted TKA for two-year all-cause linked revision.
The researchers...