Minimally invasive knee replacement

[The KNEEguru]

Hi
There is a live broadcast on March 23 2004 on 'minimally invasive total knee replacement' - http://www.or-live.com/
http://www.or-live.com/
KNEEguru

[ccchilders]

Do you have any additional information on this surgery?  Or a link?  

I need to have a TKR in the next few years and would like to have this option.  My mother recently had a TKR and I think anything would be better.


Kaye

[bliss]

Kaye - it seems that  the site above will air another tkr on May 20th.

[Moya]

I have had a quad sparing TKR went very well - now want to get back to tennis - need a knee brace
Donjoy - but which one would be most suitable?
Any experience out there
Moya

[yorkiezz]

I have watched this operation on another site Brightwoman hospital, havard collage teaching, its live right down to sawing the bones, with computor help. It does not interfere with the big muscle, which causes so much pain. Finding a consultant in the UK who has even heard of this surgury is like looking for a needle in a hay stack  !!!!
Anita

[lsc1022]

Is minimal invasive just the size of the incision?  I had TKR on 5/6 and my incision is about 5 1/2 inches, so I'm wondering if that is considered minimally invasive.

[The KNEEguru]

The length of an ordinary knee replacement incision varies among surgeons. You did well with your incision.

See this article http://www.gwhospital.com/p12661.html

[yorkiezz]

Hi everyone, sorry I dropped out, fell over and broke my right arm, really has hindered me. had my plaster off on last friday. very sore still. In the mean time, my bright consultant sent me for an MRI scan, which I had last monday, both legs, I was petrified, as of the metal in the TKR in the left leg. Well after it was all  over they called a consultant radiogrropher who told me they could not get any prints for the knee replaced leg, and he did not know why I was there as the paper work did not really refer to my legs. He asumed there had been a mix up. Well I am levid about it. Still on antibotic's since feb, not sure I want it removed and a spacer incase I never get another knee in and am left with a straight leg, as you all know the other one is a polio leg. Any ideas out there please.  Anita

[janie7439]

 yorkiezz, i can't believe all you have been thru. i'm so sorry to hear all you have had l
 
ately. no wonder you are livid. sure hope that things start to go better for you. i can't give you any ideas, i think you will have to really think long and hard before you do anything. but if you have had an infection that long i think you have to do somethong.  can you get a second op[inion?

 talk to you again soon.  good luck.
                                                  jane

[MyNewKNee]

Regarding Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement

A new study out of Rush University stated that under a managed protocol, 96% of patients were able to return home the same day as their Total Knee Replacement (TKR).  Surgeon stated that surgical technique along with pain management and therapy could make "outpatient TKR" common.

See a link to the article on the "What's New" page at my site:

http://www.totalkneeinfo.com

[missmyknee]

I had MIS TKR last Jan and there is no way I could have gone home as outpatient surgery, nor wanted to. I ended up vomiting all day next day causing hypokalemia, had blood clot ,so had to get doppler and lovenox , hemaglobin dropped to 8 and had 1 unit of blood.....not to mention IV pain control.....wouldn't want to be home with those things happeneing. I'm glad I was in hosp 4 days to get these problems tended to , as they happened....also had PE scare when I got out, ended up in ER. D dimer test was twice the normal high and had extreme SOB and chest pain, had CAT scan of lungs. Even though it's MIS it still is a big surgery. I would never have guessed I would have all those problems. That was my 8th surgery to that leg and never had problems before.

Pam

[MyNewKNee]

Pam,

I spent several years in the ortho industry and would have never thought that knee replacement would be an oupatient procedure.  Even MIS, as you say, is still a major surgery.

Regards,

Lou S.
http://www.totalkneeinfo.com

[rozzzie]

I had TKR on Dec1, 05, though it was technically not MIS, my surgeon who developed some of the MIS instruments for the knee he used uses MIS techniques even if you are not a candidate for the MIS TKR.  My incision is about 5 inches, and I have 4 punctures for the computer that was used to help align the knee. When I asked about the surgery he had only had to cut into the quad less than 1 cm.  I was in the hospital 2 nights and felt I was really ready to leave on the 2nd day post op.  Had a 2 hour drive home and stopped 3 times to get out and walk around; the first stop was at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. I was able to do a SLR on day 3.  I’m ready for the next one in March.

I think the surgeon makes the most difference in the outcome of a TKR.  My surgeon does only knee and hip replacements, is an associate professor at Ohio State, and does research on joint replacements.  He does over 200 TKR’s a year.

Rozzzie

[pegleg78]

I had a MIS PKR done on 12/8/05. My OS does the MIS with computer assisted surgery so the incision is smaller and with the computer assist the implant is always placed in the perfect position.

So far I am very happy with my knee

[avonldy]

I had a MIS Jan 17.  The inscision is only 4" long and not nearly as painful as I thought it would be.  I plan on getting the second knee done as soon as we can find the time to have it done.