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Management of knee osteoarthritis in young and active patients

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The aim of this Topical Collection is to present original papers and review articles that investigate non-operative and operative management options of knee osteoarthritis in young and active patients. The topics of the collection cover physiotherapy regimes, options for intra-articular infiltration, knee preserving procedures, such as osteotomies and (osteo)chondral transplants and knee replacement, the latter including partial, bicompartmental and total knee replacements, including but not limited to robotics.

Editors

  • PD Dr. Tilman Calliess, MD PD Dr. Tilman Calliess, MD , 

    PD Dr. Tilman Calliess, MD

    Tilman Calliess completed his training at the Orthopedic Department of the Hannover Medical School in 2012. Very early in his carrier, he specialized in hip and knee replacement with the focus on alignment philosophies and new technologies. He became team leader of the musculoskeletal oncologic surgery and knee arthroplasty unit at Annastift Hospital and in 2017 Assistant-Professor for Orthopedics. Since 2018 he works as a consultant for primary and revision hip and knee replacement at the Salem-Spital in Berne and is partner at articon. He is an active member in the European Knee Society and the German Arthroplasty Society.

  • Assistant Prof. Antonio Klasan, MD, PhD, EMBA Assistant Prof. Antonio Klasan, MD, PhD, EMBA , 

    Assistant Prof. Antonio Klasan, MD, PhD, EMBA

    After finishing orthopaedic and trauma residency in Germany, Dr. Klasan underwent a knee fellowship in Sydney and an arthroplasty and trauma Fellowship in Auckland. He is currently Head of Knee Surgeries at AUVA Hospitals in Styria, Austria and holds the position of an Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. His clinical and research areas are knee ligament, knee preservation and knee replacement techniques including robotics.

  • Prof. Sébastien Lustig, MD, PhD Prof. Sébastien Lustig, MD, PhD  &

    Prof. Sébastien Lustig, MD, PhD

    Prof. Lustig is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedics Surgery at Lyon North University Hospitals in Lyon, France. He is Chair of the Orthopaedic Department, Director of the Orthopaedic program at Lyon University, and board member of the European Knee Society and the French hip and Knee Society. He is also Deputy Editor of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery American.

  • Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont, MD Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont, MD

    Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont, MD

    Prof. Emmanuel Thienpont is the Head of Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine and Associate Chief of Surgery at the Saint Luc University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. He has an Executive MBA from the LSM Business School and holds a PhD from Gent University. His PhD was about alignment in knee arthroplasty. He is full professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Prof. Thienpont is an executive committee member of the European Knee Society and the President of CAOS Belgium. He specializes in knee surgery and focuses on knee arthroplasty and selective resurfacing in arthritic patients with unicompartmental replacements.

Articles (13 in this collection)