Does high tibial osteotomy change the tibia length?

Pierre Louis Ricci, Adrien Durandet, Amir Hossein Saveh, Qureish Vanat, Bin Wang, Mahmoud Chizari

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Abstract

High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) is an accepted means of improving the symptoms of a knee deformity such as genu varum. Patient's symptoms may improve by off-loading the diseased medial compartment of the knee by changing the axis of alignment. This means that loading of the knee joint changes to the less diseased lateral compartment by an osteotomy and opening wedge thereby reducing pain, swelling, and stiffness associated with arthritis. By implication this is major surgery and requires careful preoperative assessment taking into account, patient factors, joint geometry and degree of disease in affected and less affected compartments. This study analyzes the effect of surgery on the ultimate length of the tibia compared to its preoperative state. Both Opening and Closing Wedge osteotomies were investigated in this study. The results showed that the length of tibia would increase following the Opening Wedge HTO and it would decrease by a Closing Wedge HTO. Although the change in the length of the tibia was small in comparison to its overall length the possibility of bone lengthening must be considered carefully when determining an Opening or Closing Wedge HTO, especially when a large correction angle is required.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2013, WCE 2013
Pages1330-1334
Number of pages5
Volume2 LNECS
Publication statusPublished - 25 Nov 2013
Event2013 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2013 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 3 Jul 20135 Jul 2013

Conference

Conference2013 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period3/07/135/07/13

Keywords

  • Genu varum
  • High tibial osteotomy
  • Opening and closing wedge hto
  • Tibia length

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