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© (2024) Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and high tibial osteotomy (HTO) are well-established operative interventions in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. However, which intervention is more beneficial to patients with knee osteoarthritis remains unknown and a topic of much debate. Simultaneously, there is a paucity of research assessing the relationship between radiographic parameters of knee joint alignment and patient-reported clinical outcomes, preoperatively and following HTO or UKA. AIM To compare UKAs and HTOs as interventions for medial-compartment knee osteoarthritis: Examining differences in clinical outcome and investigating the relationship of joint alignment with respect to this. METHODS This longitudinal observational study assessed a total of 42 patients that had undergone UKA (n = 23) and HTO (n = 19) to treat medial compartment knee osteoarthritis. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) were collected to evaluate clinical outcome. These included two disease-specific (Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, Oxford Knee Score) and two generic (EQ-5D-5L, Short Form-12) PROMs. The radiographic parameters of knee alignment assessed were the: Hip-knee-ankle angle, mechanical axis deviation and angle of Mikulicz line. RESULTS Statistical analyses demonstrated significant (P < 0.001), preoperative to postoperative, improvements in the PROM scores of both groups. There were, however, no significant inter-group differences in the postoperative PROM scores of the UKA and HTO group. Several significant correlations associated a more distolaterally angled Mikulicz line with worse knee function and overall health preoperatively (P < 0.05). Postoperatively, two clusters of significant correlations were observed between the disease-specific PROM scores and knee joint alignment parameters (hip-knee-ankle angle, mechanical axis deviation) within the HTO group; yet no such associations were observed within the UKA group. CONCLUSION UKAs and HTOs are both efficacious operations that provide a comparable degree of clinical benefit to patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis. Clinical outcome has a limited association with radiographic parameters of knee joint alignment postoperatively; however, a more distolaterally angled Mikulicz line appears associated with worse knee function/health-related quality of life preoperatively.
Author(s): Wyatt FW, Al-Dadah O
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: World Journal of Orthopedics
Year: 2024
Volume: 15
Issue: 5
Pages: 444-456
Online publication date: 18/05/2024
Acceptance date: 12/04/2024
Date deposited: 29/05/2024
ISSN (electronic): 2218-5836
Publisher: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v15.i5.444
DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i5.444
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