Clinicoradiologic Outcome of Medial Open-wedge High-tibial Osteotomy are Equivalent in Bone-on-Bone Medial Osteoarthritis and non-Bone-on-Bone Medial Osteoarthritis

We conducted this study to (1) investigate whether patients with bone-on-bone (BOB) medial OA (Ahlback grade 2) had comparable clinical improvement to those with non-BOB arthritis with remaining joint space (Ahlback grades 0/1) after medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy(MOWHTO) and (2) determine whether the radiological results differ between these two groups from 1-month postoperatively to last follow-up at minimum 2 years later.
Source: Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research