Advances in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty, 2024

This book offers a comprehensive guide to revision total knee arthroplasty, a complex surgical procedure with increasing numbers due to the aging world's population.

Covering both septic and aseptic prosthetic failure, it presents an updated overview of available surgical techniques ? from one or two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection to robot-assisted total joint arthroplasty. Moreover, the authors explore the current role and future potentialities of artificial intelligence.

This volume offers the reader state-of-the-art information aiming to illuminate contentious topics in the field.

Chapter 1. The burden of revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 2. The impact of tobacco use on revision total knee arthroplasty outcomes.- Chapter 3. The impact of obesity on revision total knee arthroplasty outcomes.- Chapter 4. Impact of preoperative opioid use on patient-reported outcomes after revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 5. Assessment of patient satisfaction following revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 6. Isolated versus full component revision in total knee arthroplasty for aseptic loosening.- Chapter 7. Wound complications following revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 8. One-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection.- Chapter 9. Two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection.- Chapter 10. Revision total knee arthroplasty for arthrofibrosis.- Chapter 11. Revision total knee arthroplasty for implant-related metal allergy.- Chapter 12. Robotic-assisted revision total joint arthroplasty.- Chapter 13. Metal augments, polyethylene thickness and stem length affect tibial baseplate load transfer in revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 14. Cementless porous-coated metaphyseal sleeves used for bone defects in revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 15. Chronic extensor mechanism failure after primary or revision total knee arthroplasty: reconstructive and augmentation options.- Chapter 16. Artificial intelligence in revision total knee arthroplasty.- Chapter 17. Re-revision total knee arthroplasty.

E. Carlos Rodríguez-Merchán is a Specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and “Emeritus” Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon currently working at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Dr. Rodríguez-Merchán graduated from Complutense University with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1974, and subsequently completed a PhD in Medicine and Surgery. He is a former Associate Professor of Orthopedics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Dr. Rodríguez-Merchán is the author of more than 350 articles in peer-reviewed PubMed-cited journals, as well as 12 books.