Intermediate Term Outcome of the Agility™ Total Ankle Arthroplasty

Abstract

Total ankle arthroplasty using the Agility Total Ankle Arthroplasty prosthesis has clinically encouraging outcomes; however the high complication rate should prompt surgeons to carefully select patients for this procedure.

Early Prospective Clinical Results of a Modern Fixed-Bearing Total Ankle Arthroplasty

“…We can conclude that early outcomes with the Salto Talaris TAA are promising and comparable with the results reported in studies of other TAA systems that had similar followup 7,9,10,14,15,35,37,39,41,43 , including the mobile-bearing predecessor of the Salto Talaris, the Salto 6,13 . We believe that careful attention should be directed to concurrent pathology and deformity and that the surgeon must be prepared to address the need for concurrent procedures at the time of index ankle replacement.…”

In vivo kinematics of two-component total ankle arthroplasty during non-weightbearing and weightbearing dorsiflexion/plantarflexion

“…1), and have reported good clinical results (Takakura et al, 2004) comparable to other second generation total ankle arthroplasty designs (Buechel et al, 2004;Claridge and Sagherian, 2009;Wood et al, 2009;Gougoulias et al, 2010). Results have been less favorable in patients with rheumatoid arthritis than in patients with osteoarthritis (Nagashima et al, 2004;Takakura et al, 2004).…”

Nonmedicinal therapy in the management of ankle arthritis

“…Encouraging results have been reported at short (6-12-month) and mid-term (3-10-year) follow-up for the Agility [52,53], Hintegra [54,55], Salto [56], and Buchel Pappas [57,58] TAA designs. In the summer of 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the STAR.…”