Osteotomía valguizante de tibia en el tratamiento de la gonartrosis

we made a descriptive and retrospective study in lower limbs and arthroscopy service of "frank país" international orthopaedic scientific center in 119 patients operated on from a genus varum secondary to gonarthritis from january 1, 2003 to december 31, 2007. in all them we performed a valgus osteotomy and immobilization with yeast. we propose to assess the results of surgical treatment of gonarthritis by means of tibial valgus osteotomy. we choice a sample of 96 patients (108 knees) fulfilling the inclusion criteria of study. the more frequent age group was those aged from 56 to 70 (59,22 %). the more involved was the female sex (66,24 %). more affected knee was the right one (61,56 %) and there was a predominance of grade i affection according ahlbac classification (73,44 %). the more frequent complication was the deformity relapse (6,48 %).