New Insights in Total Ankle Arthroplasty
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Orthopedics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 154
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: total ankle arthroplasty; foot and ankle arthritis; ankle reconstruction; tendon disorders; foot fractures; deformity corrections
Interests: cartilage biology; osteoarthritis; orthopedic molecular pathology; regenerative medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past two decades, ankle arthroplasty has emerged as a viable option for ankle osteoarthritis treatment and ankle reconstruction due to advancements in prosthesis design and surgical techniques. While ankle arthroplasty shares similarities with hip and knee arthroplasty in terms of concept and principle, it presents unique challenges. For example, a greater portion of ankle arthroplasty candidates have post-traumatic ankle osteoarthritis. Patients with post-traumatic osteoarthritis often have a history of previous surgeries and require additional concurrent procedures alongside ankle arthroplasty. Compared with primary osteoarthritis, post-traumatic osteoarthritis generally leads to less favorable outcomes for arthroplasty procedures. The low prevalence of ankle osteoarthritis and the current foot and ankle practice model also contribute to a scarcity of large-scale clinical outcome studies for ankle arthroplasty. These challenges, in our opinion, only make exchanging knowledge and experiences more crucial to help expand ankle arthroplasty applications and improve clinical outcomes. This Special Issue invites research and review papers from ankle arthroplasty experts in the fields of clinical care and translational research. We welcome all topics pertaining to ankle arthroplasty, with a particular emphasis on new insights in prosthesis development, surgical approaches and techniques, and complication prevention.
Dr. Lew C. Schon
Dr. Zijun Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ankle arthroplasty
- prosthesis
- surgical skill
- postoperative care
- clinical outcome
- complication
