Main description:

This book is a practically applicable guide to the use of revision total knee arthroplasty. Demand for primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) continues to rise, with some estimates predicting this to be as high as 400% than it currently is, and this will inevitably lead to increased demand for revision surgery. Furthermore, this is a sub-specialist area of arthroplasty that is complex and challenging with high failure rates, meaning that there is a real need to improve the outcomes of these procedures. Within this book, the chapters focus on a particular subject area focusing on how to successfully perform a procedure in a step-by-step manner in a variety of scenarios from condylar revisions to salvage cases. Topics covered include how to use surgical techniques in instances of periprosthetic distal femur fractures and manage infections where bone loss has been significant. Long-term outcome data is also presented to enable the reader to develop a deep understanding of where a particular strategy might be most effective.

Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Practical Guide concisely details how to use the techniques covered in all aspects of revision knee surgery, making it an indispensable resource for all those involved in the care of these patients or who use these techniques in their day-to-day clinical practice.

Contents:

Philosophy of primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: Back to the Beginnings.- Complex Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Assessment of Painful Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Indications for Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Challenges of Surgical Exposure.- Removal of Well-Fixed Components.- Principles of Surgical Reconstruction: Back to the Beginnings...Again.- Fixation in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Kinematics of Constrained Condylar Revision Implants: Practical Perspective.- Rotating Hinge Implants.- Salvage Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Managing Infection in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: Practical Perspective.- Orthoplastics and Revision Knee Arthroplasty.- Managing Chronic Patella Dislocations in Revision Knee Arthroplasty: Surgical Technique.- Extensor Mechanism Failure and Allograft Reconstruction.- Periprosthetic Distal Femur Fractures: Arthroplasty Perspective.- Mortality in Revision Knee Arthroplasty.- Starting a Career as a Revision Knee Surgeon- Benjamin Bloch.- Lifetime of Revision Knee Arthroplasty.- Lifetime of Revision Knee Arthroplasty.