AAOS: Study Finds Robots Do Not Help Knee Revisions; Analysts Bullish On Ortho; More

Studies presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons' annual meeting in San Francisco found that robotics did not improve revision rates in total knee arthroplasty surgeries and chatbots do not consistently provide accurate information to orthopedics patients. Wall Street analysts came away from the meeting bullish on the joint reconstruction surgery market. More news from the 12-16 February meeting.

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Robotic-assisted cementless total knee arthroplasty (TKA) does not improve revision rates two years following surgery compared to standard TKA, according to a new registry analysis presented at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons conference in San Francisco.

Researchers led by Emily Jimenez, a data scientist at AAOS, and Lucas Nikkel, an orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University,...

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