Obesity does not impact complications and conversion to total knee arthroplasty after high tibial osteotomy : A systematic review

© 2024 The Authors. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy..

PURPOSE: The purpose of this systematic review is to consolidate outcomes of obese patients undergoing high tibial osteotomy and to investigate the effect of obesity on postoperative outcomes, including symptomatic relief and time to conversion to arthroplasty.

METHODS: Medline, Embase and Cochrane Library were searched from database inception up to April 2023 according to PRISMA guidelines by two reviewers. Search terms including 'obesity', 'BMI', 'osteotomy' and 'high tibial osteotomy (HTO)' were included to identify all relevant articles. Only studies that explicitly reported outcomes for obese patients were included. Disagreements in study inclusion or quality assessment were resolved by a senior third reviewer. Metrics compared include time to arthroplasty, preoperative and postoperative mechanical tibiofemoral angle (mTFA), patient-reported satisfaction scores and postoperative complications.

RESULTS: Nine studies comparing 973 patients were included. The mean age was 52.7 ± 4.2 years old and 38.4% were male. Six studies performed the medial opening-wedge HTO, and three utilized the medial wedge closing technique. Most studies indicated significant improvement following surgical intervention with satisfactory outcomes in obese and nonobese patients. In addition, differences in complication rates were minimal between obese and nonobese patients (n.s.), while functional scores did not vary significantly. Conversion to total knee arthroplasty was not found to increase in obese patients (n.s.).

CONCLUSION: Obesity does not appear to carry a greater complication risk or worse outcomes following high tibial osteotomies, and surgeons should consider HTO a viable option for young obese patients with symptomatic unicompartmental chondral wear with coronal limb malalignment.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA - 32(2024), 3 vom: 27. März, Seite 666-677

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Harris, Chandler [VerfasserIn]
Nadeem, Fahad [VerfasserIn]
Hargreaves, Mathew [VerfasserIn]
Campbell, Collier [VerfasserIn]
Momaya, Amit [VerfasserIn]
Casp, Aaron [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

HTO
High tibial osteotomy
Journal Article
Knee
Obesity
Osteoarthritis
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 14.03.2024

Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ksa.12084

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368999998