Robotic knee surgery fails to improve revision rates, study finds

A study determining that robotic assistance in knee replacement surgeries does not improve revision rates two years following surgery has been presented at AAOS 2024 in San Francisco.

Researchers used the American Joint Replacement Registry to identify patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA), otherwise known as a knee replacement, between January 2017 and March 2020 with a minimum two-year follow-up. The research, published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, found that robotic assistance did not significantly affect the risk of revision.