Response to review article published titled ‘Total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis - a comparison of outcomes over the last decade’

We write in response to Lawton et al.’s (J Orthop Surg Res 12:76, 2017) important systematic review comparing the outcomes of total ankle replacement (TAR) and ankle arthrodesis (AA) after reviewing the existing literature. Traditionally, AA was the gold standard treatment for ankle osteoarthritis b...

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Autores principales: Mohammad, Hasan R., Debrock, Will, Mellon, Stephen J., Cooke, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6528247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31109350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-019-1190-1
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description We write in response to Lawton et al.’s (J Orthop Surg Res 12:76, 2017) important systematic review comparing the outcomes of total ankle replacement (TAR) and ankle arthrodesis (AA) after reviewing the existing literature. Traditionally, AA was the gold standard treatment for ankle osteoarthritis but there is renewed interest in TAR given modern design advantages of preserved ankle motion and gait. We outline some pertinent issues for surgeons to consider when interpreting results from review articles comparing treatment types given the limitations of primary studies. These include significant clinical heterogeneity from the indication for surgery, different treatment type subgroups and from poorly defined clinical outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-65282472019-05-28 Response to review article published titled ‘Total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis - a comparison of outcomes over the last decade’ Mohammad, Hasan R. Debrock, Will Mellon, Stephen J. Cooke, Paul J Orthop Surg Res Letter to the Editor We write in response to Lawton et al.’s (J Orthop Surg Res 12:76, 2017) important systematic review comparing the outcomes of total ankle replacement (TAR) and ankle arthrodesis (AA) after reviewing the existing literature. Traditionally, AA was the gold standard treatment for ankle osteoarthritis but there is renewed interest in TAR given modern design advantages of preserved ankle motion and gait. We outline some pertinent issues for surgeons to consider when interpreting results from review articles comparing treatment types given the limitations of primary studies. These include significant clinical heterogeneity from the indication for surgery, different treatment type subgroups and from poorly defined clinical outcomes. BioMed Central 2019-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6528247/ /pubmed/31109350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-019-1190-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cooke, Paul
Response to review article published titled ‘Total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis - a comparison of outcomes over the last decade’
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title_short Response to review article published titled ‘Total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis - a comparison of outcomes over the last decade’
title_sort response to review article published titled ‘total ankle arthroplasty versus ankle arthrodesis - a comparison of outcomes over the last decade’
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6528247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31109350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-019-1190-1
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