partial

Meniscectomy

Background

 

Meniscectomy 

- resect 30%

- increases contact pressures 3.5 x

- shock absorbing capacity reduced to 20% normal

 

Results of partial & total meniscectomy are very poor in children

- meniscectomy in children is a last resort

- repair amenable tears

- treat others non-operatively

- only real indication for meniscectomy is locked knee not amenable to repair

 

Arthroplasty

Indications

 

RA 

- very good results

- 97% 10 year survival Coonrad-Morrey prosthesis

 

Other Dx 

- OA / post-traumatic arthritis / nonunion

- tend to have worse survival than RA

 

Haemophilia

- elbow joint commonly involved

- 90% of haemophiliacs

 

Acute unreconstructable fracture > 60