Abstract Between 2003 and 2006 we implanted 140 mobile bearing AES total ankle replacements. None was lost to follow-up for reasons other than the death of a patient. The mean follow-up was 20 months (6 – 48). The mean AOFAS ankle and hindfoot score was 79 and 97% of patients rated their outcome as better, much better or excellent. A complication requiring further surgery developed in twenty ankles. At the time of follow up no implant had been revised or removed. The most frequent complication requiring surgery was edge loading in sixteen ankles. Other complications include delayed wound healing and fracture of a malleolus. |
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