The Knee Joint

The Traumatic Knee.- The menisci: anatomy, healing response, and biomechanics.- The cruciate ligaments: anatomy, biology, and biomechanics.- The anatomy and biomechanics of the medial collateral ligament and posteromedial corner of the knee.- The lateral collateral ligament and posterolateral corner.- Basic science of ligament healing.- Clinical basis: epidemiology, risk factors, mechanisms of injury, and prevention of ligament injuries of the knee.- MRI evaluation of knee ligaments.- Classification of knee laxities.- Scoring the knee.- The Menisci.- Arthroscopic meniscectomy.- Meniscal sutures.- Meniscal allograft transplantation.- The ACL.- Diagnostic and surgical decision ACL tears.- Natural history of ACL tears: from rupture to osteoarthritis.- Graft choice in ACL reconstruction.- Tunnels, graft positioning, and isometry in ACL reconstruction.- Technique in ACL reconstruction: hamstring reconstruction.- Technique in ACL reconstruction: patellar tendon.- Place of navigation in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.- Single or double bundle?.- Anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction: how I do it?.- Results of ACL reconstruction.- Arthrofi brosis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.- ACL rehabilitation.- ACL rupture in children: anatomical and biological bases, outcome of ACL deficient knee in childhood: strategy, operative technique, results, and complications.- Combined injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament and posterolateral corner.- Failure in ACL reconstruction: etiology, treatment, and results.- The PCL.- Definition and diagnosis of posterior cruciate ligament injury and algorithm of treatment.- Natural history of PCL ruptures.- The PCL: different options in PCL reconstruction: choice of the graft? One or two bundles?.- Graft tunnel positioning during PCL reconstruction.- Techniques in posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: an arthroscopic approach.- Arthroscopic reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament using double-bundle and tibial-inlay technique.- Technique in PCL reconstruction: mini posterior approach.- Results of PCL reconstruction.- Combined injuries to the posterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament of the knee.- PCL injury associated with a posterolateral tear.- Bicruciate injuries and dislocations.- The multiple-ligament injured knee.- Surgical treatment of cartilage tear: principles and results.- Technique of mosaicplasty.- Allograft osteoarticular resurfacing.- Technique of chondrocytes implantation.- Regenerative medicine for cartilage.- Patello-femoral joint.- The biomechanics of the patella.- Imaging of patellofemoral joint.- Anterior knee pain and patellar instability: diagnosis and treatment.- Patellar stabilization for episodic patellar instability.- Deepening trochleoplasty for patellofemoral instability.- The Degenerative Knee.- Osteoarthritis of the patello-femoral joint.- Patellofemoral osteoarthritis: pathophysiologie, treatment and results.- Patellofemoral replacement.- Indications in osteoarthritis of the femoro-tibial joint.- Is there a place for arthroscopy in the degenerative knee?.- Surgical indications in medial knee osteoarthritis.- Osteotomy around the knee.- Biomechanics, basis, and indications of osteotomies around the knee.- Technique of closing wedge HTO.- Technique of open wedge HTO.- Results of HTO in medial OA of the knee.- Osteotomies in the valgus knee.- Medial closing wedge varus osteotomy of the distal femur.- Unicondylar knee arthroplasty.- Technical considerations, results, and complications of mobile-bearing UKA.- Fixed bearing unicompartmental knee prosthesis: results, complications, and technical considerations.- Indications of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.- Lateral Unicompartmental Knee Replacement.- Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Design and concept in TKA.- The history of total knee arthroplasty.- Posterostabilized TKA: advantages and disadvantages.- Conservation of posterior cruciate ligament in fixed-bearing total knee replacement.- Deep dish TKA: advantages and disadvantages.- Bicruciate retaining TKA: the future?.- Mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty: advantages and disadvantages.- Fixed-bearing total knee arthoplasty: advantages and disadvantages.- Cement fixation for total knee arthroplasty.- Surgical techniques.- Pre-operative imaging techniques.- In primary total knee replacement: role for computed tomography.- The mini-subvastus approach for total knee arthroplasty.- The degenerative knee – surgical techniques: “gap balancing”.- Component orientation and total knee arthroplasty.- Rotation of components in total knee arthroplasty.- Improving mobility.- Medical management before and after TKA.- Rehabilitation protocol following total knee arthroplasty.- The Patella in TKA.- Why I always resurface the patella in TKA.- Why I do not routinely resurface the patella in TKA.- Navigation in TKA.- Total knee replacement navigation: the different techniques.- Why using navigation in total knee arthroplasty?.- Results in Primary TKA.- Results and function of total knee arthroplasty.- Difficulties in Primary TKA.- TKA in the stiff knee.- The lateral approach in the valgus knee.- TKA in the severe valgus knee: lateral epicondyle sliding osteotomy technique.- Total knee replacement in patients with severe varus deformity.- Total knee arthroplasty after failed high tibial osteotomy.- Total knee arthroplasty after malunion.- Revision total knee arthroplasty after failed unicompartmental knee replacement.- Failures and Revision in TKA.- Causes of failures in TKA.- The painful total knee arthroplasty.- Pre-operative planning for revision TKA.- Technique of revision: surgical approach.- Revision TKA: component removal.- Management of bony defects in revision TKR.- Stems in revision TKA.- Technique of revision in TKA: joint line level.- Technique of revision in total knee arthroplasty: the patella.- Extensor mechanism allograft, surgical technique.- Infection in total knee arthroplasty, prevention.- Diagnosis of infection after total knee arthroplasty.- Infection in total knee arthroplasty: treatment.