by Vince Vacketta, DPM A national database study published last month compared outcomes between two surgical treatments for end-stage ankle arthritis: primary TAA and AA. The analysis included 69,627 propensity-matched patients in each group. The study found that TAA was associated with better outcomes and lower healthcare costs compared with arthrodesis: Reoperations, Revisions, and Reoperations: The overall reoperation rate was 3.1% after TAA compared with 7.7% after arthr

by Vince Vacketta, DPM A patient asks: “Doctor, my ankle hurts too much to exercise and lose weight. Can we fix it first? Then I can lose weight.” The study Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study examining TAR outcomes in obese patients with a minimum ten-year follow-up period. They compared results between obese patients and non-obese control groups, stratified by body mass index. Because surgical techniques and implant designs evolved during the study peri

Gregory Lundeen was the foot and ankle surgeon who first described medial malleolar fractures (MMF) in the context of total ankle...

There is much is to be discovered concerning cysts and total ankle arthroplasty, but we do know is that cysts may lead to aseptic...