No. 019: September-October 2022

This month, we are honored to feature an interview with Professor Robert Hube, President-Elect of the European Knee Society and Director of Arthroplasty at Munich's OCM Clinic. His career, shaped by formative training in South Africa and Pittsburgh, reflects a sustained commitment to surgical efficiency and subspecialty education. Leading a practice performing over 1,200 annual arthroplasties, Professor Hube advocates for structured postgraduate training and subspecialization as pillars of advancing international orthopedic standards.

The accompanying articles address a broad spectrum of knee arthroplasty challenges. Infection management is examined through two-stage TKA protocols for active septic knee arthritis with severe chondrolysis and treatment of infected unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Technical optimization is addressed in key steps for total knee arthroplasty and the role of MPFL reconstruction in TKA. Comparative outcomes between high tibial osteotomy and unicondylar arthroplasty and a critical appraisal of robotic knee surgery further enrich this issue.