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HTO and UKA has diminished, with few
operations spread over many hospitals and a
risk of gradual loss of experience with respect
to patient selection and surgical routine. In
April 2013, the SKAR started registration of
knee osteotomies corresponding to the
registration for knee arthroplasties in order to
increasetheknowledgeofitsuse,demographics,
surgical methods, techniques and outcome.
As the younger patients are likely to have
different demands on knee function and has a
longer expected lifetime than the older patients
the choice of primary knee reconstruction may
be crucial. Considering their higher revision
rate and the increasing use of knee arthroplasty,
the burden of revision arthroplasty in Sweden
is likely to increase substantially in the future.
Fig. 2: The risk of revision for uni-compartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA)
(W-Dahl et al. 2010).
Fig. 3: Cumulative revision rate (CRR) for high tibial
osteotomy (HTO) (W-Dahl et al. 2012).