Evolution and status of unicompartmental knee prostheses / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty has been prevailed in orthopedics,but there is a lack of overview addressing unicompartmental knee prostheses.OBJECTIVE:To review the evolution and current situation of unicompartmental knee prostheses and to discuss its classifications,characters and clinical outcomes,thereby providing guidance for clinical application.METHODS:PubMed and WanFang databases were retrieved for the articles related to unicompartmental knee prostheses and its clinical outcomes.Totally 177 articles were retrieved,and finally 35 eligible articles plus other 4 reports were included after excluding repetitive studies.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) It has been more than 60 years since the birth of unicompartmental knee prostheses.Despite the difficult in the past,it comes to mature and the survival rate is more than 90％ at 10 years.(2) At present,the most popular prostheses include mobile-bearing (represented by Oxford 3) and fixed-bearing (represented by ZUK and Link).There is no significant difference in clinical outcomes between two designs.However,their differences have been noted in their modes and timing of failures.(3) Aseptic loosening and lateral osteoarthritis progression remain the most common failure modes in unicompartmental knee prostheses.(4) Cementless prostheses and individual unicompartmental knee prostheses based on CT or MRI scan maybe promote the long-term efficacy of unicompartmental knee prostheses.