Tibial cancellous bone auto-grafting for medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy: bone void filling with tissue harvested from osteotomized medullary canal

Keywords:

Knee medial compartment arthritis; open-wedge high tibial osteotomy; bone graft materials; tibial cancellous autograft


Published online: Aug 23 2022

https://doi.org/10.52628/88.2.9947

Cumhur Cevdet Kesemenli, Omer Yonga, Serdar Demiroz, Kaya Memisoglu, Emre Karadeniz

From the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Medicine, Kocaeli University. ?zmit, Kocaeli, Turkey

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical and radiological outcomes in a series of patients undergoing open wedge high tibial osteotomy (OWHTO) using tibial cancellous autograft harvested from the osteotomized medullary canal which is not reported in the literature before.

Patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis were treated with OWHTO and tibial cancellous auto- grafting performed from the osteotomized medullary canal and used for bone void filling. Seventy patients (seventy-two knees) treated with OWHTO were analyzed. All patients started partial weight-bearing with crutches the day after surgery and full-weight bearing eight weeks after surgery, according to radiological evaluation. Fifty-seven women and 13 men with a mean age of 54.2±8.1 years were evaluated in this study. The mean correction angle was 8.4±2.5° (range: 5.3°-14.3°). The osteotomy sites of all patients were grafted with tibial cancellous autografts. In all patients bony union was detected after surgery. No implant failures or major complications were en- countered. Clinical and radiological findings revealed that bone void filling with the harvested autograft from the osteotomized medullary canal may be a satisfactory and reliable option in OWHTO.