Faster Recovery, Less Pain in Knee Revision (Orthopedics This Week)
AAOS news New technique promising to treat revision TKR bone loss
Wayne G. Paprosky, M.D. is a hip and knee surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush who is on the hunt for a ‘more perfect’ way to do knee revision surgery…and he may have found it. He told OTW, “My colleagues and I noticed that the results of cemented revision knee surgery leave a lot to be desired. We developed the idea of using cones to enable us to avoid the use of bone cement for long term fixation and Zimmer crafted the implant.”
“When you remove the cement ...
