Total Ankle Replacement: A Practical Guide to Surgical Management

This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of ankle osteoarthritis pathologies and solutions for successful ankle replacement surgery. The opening chapters examine the anatomical basics and biomechanical features essential for understanding each pathological condition and achieving a well-balanced and stable replaced ankle.

The authors further illustrate the diagnostic work-up, pre-operative planning, indications, and contraindications. Providing step-by-step guidance through the most updated surgical techniques, many of which they have pioneered themselves, they complement the path toward successful replacement surgery. Besides primary arthroplasty, the volume focuses particularly on revising failed total ankle arthroplasty and provides new insights into the possibilities and limitations of salvaging a painful ankle arthrodesis with an ankle prosthesis.

A wealth of intraoperative photographs of unique quality, combined with a consistent structureand a problem-oriented approach, make this book a must-read for all foot and ankle surgeons. Moreover, it is a valuable source of information for residents wishing to gain insights into end-stage osteoarthritic ankles and for researchers and physiotherapists seeking to understand the clinician’s view on their work.

Beat Hintermann is an Associate Professor at the University of Basel. After his residency program, he completed a research fellowship in Biomechanics at the University of Calgary, Canada, and two fellowships: one in Asia and one in the USA and the United Kingdom. After being the head of the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma at the University Hospital in Basel for 13 years, he served from 2006 to 2019 as the chairman of the Clinic for Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Kantonsspital Baselland, Switzerland. In 2019, he founded the Center of Excellence for Foot and Ankle Surgery, which he has since chaired. During his tenure, new and innovative techniques and procedures have been introduced, such as correcting osteotomies of deformities, arthrodeses of the hindfoot complex and total ankle replacement. He conceived the H3 ankle and was a co-conceptor of the H2 ankle. He is the author of over 275 peer-reviewed articles and 5 medical textbooks on reconstructive surgery of the ankle and hindfoot complex. He has received numerous awards for his clinical and biomechanical research. In 2017, he was appointed a Visiting Professor at Ruijin University of Shanghai, China. He is regularly a faculty member at international foot and ankle meetings and an organizer of practical instructional courses in Switzerland and abroad.

Roxa Ruiz is a senior attending surgeon at the Center of Excellence for Foot and Ankle Surgery at Kantonsspital Baselland (Switzerland), also serving as its Medical Director. She gained her medical degree and specialized in orthopedic trauma at the University in Lima, Peru. In 1998, she joined the Central Military Hospital of Lima, first as a senior resident; after that, as a senior attending surgeon, she served as the Head of the War Service Unit, one of the two units in the Orthopaedic Trauma Department there. In 2003, she made a fellowship at the Institute of Foot and Ankle at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, USA; in 2008, she had a fellowship in Baltimore, USA. In 2011, she spent at the Kantonsspital Liestal. At the same time, she founded the Chapter for Foot and Ankle Surgery in the Peruvian Orthopaedic and Trauma Society, for which she also served as the founding and first president. In 2014, she became a Guest Professor at Lima’s Mayor University of San Marcos Postgrad Unit. She is regularly a faculty member at international foot and ankle meetings. She is the author of numerous scientific papers and book chapters, co-author of two textbooks, and co-conceptor of the H2 ankle prosthesis.