[Hemialloarthroplasty of the knee joint. Results of 2 different gliding prosthesis models]

The outcome of 2 different unicompartimental knee arthroplasty procedures (St. Georg, Link AG, and Wessinghage, Sulzer Medica AG) is presented. The clinical results were evaluated by use of the Insall Score (Knee Society Rating System). According to this system, the subjective opinion of the patients are presented as a "Function Score" and the clinical evaluations is shown as a "Knee Score". In this study, the median follow-up for the St. Georg implant was 7 years and 6 months with good results reported by both scores. The median follow-up for the Wessinghage implant was 3 years and 2 months and it also showed good results. Despite the high average age of the patients in this study as well as the high percentage of female patients, both types of prostheses produced good results. If any, partial or complete radioluciencies were mainly observed in the tibial component. However, they had no clinical consequence. It should be noted, however, that arthritis in the compartment not receiving arthroplasty surgery progressed in almost 2/3 of the patients. By implantation of both implants a physiological axis of the leg could be achieved. The survivorship of the St. Georg implant was 88.92% (10 years survivorship). For the Wessinghage implant it was 98.35% (5 years survivorship).