Arlen D. Hanssen

TL;DR: The use of synthetic mesh to reconstruct a disrupted patellar tendon is a straightforward surgical procedure that was successful and durable in the majority of patients in this series and may be more cost-effective than allograft.

TL;DR: A randomized, prospective study of total hip arthroplasty was performed comparing 2 cementless acetabular implants: a solid titanium and a more elastic porous tantalum design, demonstrating stress-shielding likely occurs less around a highly porous metal implant of material with an elastic modulus similar to bone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied the two-incision total hip arthroplasty technique to a consecutive group of unselected patients with primary degenerative arthritis to determine the technical difficulty of the operation as measured by the operative time compared with a standard posterior approach.

TL;DR: The increased difficulty in achieving a healed wound, a successful knee arthrodesis, and eradication of infection with subsequent nonprosthetic salvage procedures as well as the attendant morbidity associated with reinfection must be considered carefully and discussed with the patient before the reimplantation prosthesis is inserted to treat the infected total kneeArthroplasty.

TL;DR: Advances in radiographic imaging and surgical instrumentation have allowed experienced orthopaedic surgeons to perform total hip and total knee replacement surgery with surgical exposures that are less extensive than those associated with traditional techniques, and some anesthesiologists have embraced the concept of “preemptive multimodal perioperative analgesia.”