Totals Aren’t Always an Inevitability
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Case Study: Totals Aren’t Always an Inevitability Mr Alberto Gregori, FRCS* Ross Lethbridge** Adam Simone** * Hairmyres Hospital (East Kilbride, Scotland) ** Blue Belt Technologies, inc. (Pittsburgh, PA)

Case Study: Totals Aren’t Always an Inevitability Uni-compartmental Knee Replacement clinically on a patient with particularly challenging symptoms. Unicondylar Knee Replacement (UKR) has shown to have good mid- to long-term results for those patients properly indicated, presenting with mild to mid-stage osteoarthritis confined to the medial or lateral compartment. The majority of UKR surgeries are treating medial osteoarthritis. UKR has shown consistent growth in the United States and in Europe as implants, techniques and clinical outcomes have supported increased surgical utilization. In...

C. J BLUE BELT TECHNOLOGIES. INC The patient is adamant he does not want a total knee replacement at his age. He has a standing leg varus deformity of 12 degrees, with significant medial compartment bone loss. The surgeon has accessed the pre- operative x-rays and has concluded he can only implant a uni-knee if the NavioPFS planning phase allows him to correct the long leg alignment to minimal varus and balance the knee with the limited tibia poly sizes in the uni range. If the surgeon did not have the NavioPFS surgical system to accomplish this, he would have had to recommend a total knee...