Dear Colleagues,

The great success of the first volume of this Special Issue, “State of Art in Hip and Knee Replacement”, was of huge satisfaction and a great signal for the editors of Prosthesis, encouraging for the second volume.

A joint replacement is considered routine and in some institutions is even performed as an outpatient surgery, but this can be confused with an easy procedure with no implications. This is a great mistake that has to be limited, and knowledge is the only way to do so.

Joint replacement surgery must be considered by young and even experienced surgeons due to the impact on patients’ activity and quality of life. In addition, patient populations are growing in different directions; older people for pain relief and young patients for increasing daily activity.

This aspect represents a great challenge and makes it even more difficult to standardize the treatment due to the high variability in indication and expectations.

In this volume of “State of the Art in Hip, Knee and Shoulder Replacement” we will focus on replacement surgeries of the hip and knee—as in the previous one—but we will also include the shoulder, to address all the bigger joints and give a broad perspective on more up-to-date surgical techniques, indications, and results.

We are living in a new golden era of orthopedic surgery thanks to the great boost of technology (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence) that is giving new stamina to research and clinical outcomes; particular attention will be given to this aspect, which in our vision is of paramount importance for the future.

It is mandatory for surgeons to have high levels of skill and knowledge to perform a time-saving, tissue-sparing, and highly effective procedure that can give patients a better and faster recovery, reducing the risk of infection or complications.

This Special Issue would like to be a thorough investigation of the actual state of the art in hip, knee, and shoulder replacement, with the contributions of great surgeons, scientists, and clinicians that apply the best practices to their patients every day.

This is a new great opportunity to give a guide to joint replacement surgeons and the correct visibility to useful papers.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Solarino
Dr. Umberto Cottino
Guest Editors

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