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A comparative study of the medial St Georg Sled and Kinematic total knee arthroplasties

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Bristol Knee Group, Winford Unit, Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK.

Correspondence should be sent to Mr C. E. Ackroyd at 2 Clifton Park, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3BS, UK.

We have studied the long-term outcome of 408 primary medial St George Sled unicompartmental arthroplasties of the knee and 531 primary Kinematic total knee arthroplasties using survivorship analysis. The operations were performed by a number of surgeons under the supervision of two consultants at one orthopaedic centre. Prospective clinical assessment was carried out before and at 2, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 15 years after operation. Failure was defined as follows: revision or removal of the implant; the presence of moderate or severe pain; or ‘worst-case’ with all patients lost to follow-up.

Cumulative survival rates at ten years were calculated using life tables. The follow-up rate was 97%. At ten years, 25 medial sled arthroplasties and 20 Kinematic knee arthroplasties had been revised. With revision or removal as the survivorship endpoint at ten years there was a success rate of 87.5% for the medial sled and 89.6% for the Kinematic knee arthroplasty. When moderate or severe pain was included these rates became 79.4% for both arthroplasties. There was no statistically significant (p > 0.05) difference between the rates of survival for the two arthroplasties using either of the endpoint criteria.

Good or excellent results were recorded for 77.9% of the medial sled knees and 75.1% for the Kinematic knees. The former had 93.8% of cases with a final range of movement in excess of 90° compared with 83.7% for the Kinematic knees (p < 0.01). We conclude that at a single orthopaedic centre in the UK, the St Georg Sled medial compartment arthroplasty for appropriate specific indications offers predictable survivorship at ten years which is comparable with that of the Kinematic total knee arthroplasty.

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