Total knee arthroplasty is one of the most popular and successful procedures in orthopedic surgery, with exponential growth in the last few decades. The development of new surgical materials and techniques has improved as patients' functional needs and life expectancy has increased. Patient-specific instrumentation techniques, robotic assistance, and artificial intelligence are yielding increasingly promising results in short- and medium-term follow-up. The proliferation of these new technologies and the recent spread of different alignment options like kinematic alignment have provided considerable insights into innovation in total knee prosthetics. Therefore, these advances provide many choices for the orthopedic surgeon to develop a well-planned treatment based on the individual patient's characteristics.
This special issue aims to provide a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date review of available total knee replacement technologies to assist the orthopedic surgeon in making appropriate treatment choices in daily clinical practice. The several alignment options available and the increasing development of robotic surgery in the last few years represent the main domains of innovation that should be examined and investigated further to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the new trends in total knee replacement.
Main topics include but are not limited to:
• Development of new Instruments and Materials in TKA
• Robot-assisted TKA
• Artificial Intelligence in TKA
• Improving Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life in TKA
• Education in TKA Technologies
• Development of new Instruments and Materials in TKA
• Augmented reality in TKA
• Virtual Reality in TKA
• Robotic Knee Surgery in TKA
• Kinematic Alignment in TKA
• Alignment Options in TKA
• Navigation System in TKA
Total knee arthroplasty is one of the most popular and successful procedures in orthopedic surgery, with exponential growth in the last few decades. The development of new surgical materials and techniques has improved as patients' functional needs and life expectancy has increased. Patient-specific instrumentation techniques, robotic assistance, and artificial intelligence are yielding increasingly promising results in short- and medium-term follow-up. The proliferation of these new technologies and the recent spread of different alignment options like kinematic alignment have provided considerable insights into innovation in total knee prosthetics. Therefore, these advances provide many choices for the orthopedic surgeon to develop a well-planned treatment based on the individual patient's characteristics.
This special issue aims to provide a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date review of available total knee replacement technologies to assist the orthopedic surgeon in making appropriate treatment choices in daily clinical practice. The several alignment options available and the increasing development of robotic surgery in the last few years represent the main domains of innovation that should be examined and investigated further to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the new trends in total knee replacement.
Main topics include but are not limited to:
• Development of new Instruments and Materials in TKA
• Robot-assisted TKA
• Artificial Intelligence in TKA
• Improving Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life in TKA
• Education in TKA Technologies
• Development of new Instruments and Materials in TKA
• Augmented reality in TKA
• Virtual Reality in TKA
• Robotic Knee Surgery in TKA
• Kinematic Alignment in TKA
• Alignment Options in TKA
• Navigation System in TKA
