Does Robotic Assist Reduce TKA Revision Rates? NO?!

Research being a patience game, those interested in performing a population-level comparison of revision rates between robotic-assisted and non-robotic assist total knee arthroplasty (TKA) had to wait. But patience paid off with the February 2024 release of “Robotic-assisted TKA is Not Associated With Decreased Odds of Early Revision: An Analysis of the American Joint Replacement Registry,” which appears in the journal: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

“Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty was first approved for use in the U.S. in 2017,” co-author Lucas Nikkel, M.D. of Johns Hopkins Medicine, told OTW. “It takes some time to get enough patients who have had procedures with the technology and have two-year outcomes.”