Abstract
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is an alternative to total knee arthroplasty in isolated medial arthritis. UKA restores native tibial and femoral joint surfaces and corrects pre-disease limb alignment, by which natural knee biomechanics are restored, ensuring effective functional recovery. Proper patient selection and accurate surgical technique contribute to good functional outcome and long-term survival. The key steps of the procedure (as well as multiple tips and tricks) are demonstrated in the video article: (1) preoperative assessment and planning; (2) patient positioning and setup; (3) exposure; (4) instrument options and surgical technique; (5) distal femoral resection; (6) proximal tibial resection; (7) assessment of alignment and gaps; (8) finishing the femur—sizing, position, and posterior resection; (9) finishing the tibia—sizing and position; (10) trialing the implant; (11) implanting final components—cementing technique; (12) closure; and (13) rehabilitation. Following these surgical steps and principles will lead to excellent functional long-term results with a low revision rate and a minimum of complications.
Published outcomes of this procedure can be found at: J Arthroplasty. 2018 Sep;33(9):2792-9.
Disclosure: The authors indicated that no external funding was received for any aspect of this work. On the Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms, which are provided with the online version of the article, one or more of the authors checked “yes” to indicate that the author had a relevant financial relationship in the biomedical arena outside the submitted work (http://links.lww.com/JBJSEST/A258).
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