Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, an enigma, and the ten enigmas of medial UKA

• Published in: Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology Vol. 21; no. 1; p. 15
• Main Authors: Mittal, Anurag, Meshram, Prashant, Kim, Woo Hyun, Kim, Tae Kyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 02-09-2020; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Arthroplasty (knee); Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; Bearing design; Bearing surface; Biomedical materials; Cementless; Conservative Orthopedics; Cost effectiveness; Degeneration; Humans; Indications; Joint replacement surgery; Joint surgery; Knee; Knee Prosthesis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Orthopedics; Osteoarthritis, Knee - surgery; Patient Selection; Prostheses; Prosthesis Failure; Review; Review Article; Rheumatology; Sports Medicine; Surgical implants; Surgical Orthopedics; Survivability; Traumatic Surgery; UKA; Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; Indications; Cementless; UKA; Cost effectiveness; Bearing surface; Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
• ISSN: 1590-9921; 1590-9999
• DOI: 10.1186/s10195-020-00551-x

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a bone- and ligament-sparing alternative to total knee arthroplasty in the patients with end-stage single-compartment degeneration of the knee. Despite being a successful procedure, the multiple advantages of UKA do not correlate with its usage, most likely due to the concerns regarding prosthesis survivability, patient selection, ideal bearing design, and judicious use of advanced technology among many others. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to review and summarize the debated literature and discuss the controversies as “Ten Enigmas of UKA.”