62 and 63 - HAV II Flashcards
Medial eminence procedure
- Removal of the bump
- In a normal healthy patient with a bunion, the medial eminence is a radiographic artifact
- In an old person with a long-term bunion, there may actually be a bump on the medial side
Hallux varus
- A common complication of HAV correction because we have removed a normal part of the joint by removing the medial eminence
- We mean transverse plane – the hallux rotates medially
Indications for bunion surgery
- Symptoms that interfere with normal daily activities
- Severe or rapidly developing deformity in young patients
- Skin breakdown and ulceration
- NOT a cosmetic procedure??
- You are not going to solve the deformity with a pad – need to explain the options
- If your patient is fully informed, you can schedule surgery on the first appointment
Ideal bunion procedure (went through really quick)
- Corrects a wide range of deformity
- Useful in broad patient population
- Allows early ROM and ambulation
- Requires minimal tissue disruption
- Consistent healing characteristics
- Low recurrence rate
- Follows established mechanical and biologic rules
Surgical planning (went through really quick)
- Indications for procedure
- Medical concerns
- Anesthesia
- Hemostasis
- Exposure / Incision
- Osteotomy
- Fixation
- Closure
- Postoperative course
Technical considerations (went through really quick)
- Blood supply
- Parallelism of cuts / Axis guides
- Troughing
- Bone removal
- Fixation
Incision (went through really quick)
- Allows access to structures to be manipulated
- Must produce minimal damage to associated structures
- Consider cosmetic factors
- Consider potential local irritation
Traditional bunion incision
- Dorsal-medial incision
- Medial and adjacent to the extensor hallucis longus
- Subcutaneous dissection for extracapsular lateral release
- Dorsal capsulotomy
- Medial capsulorrhaphy in the subcutaneous pouch
Medial exposure to first MPJ – Her procedure of choice***
Medial exposure procedure: o Medial midline o Subcapsular dissection o Intracapsular lateral release o Away from vital tendons, synovial folds and blood supply o Well suited to distal osteotomies o Adjunct to proximal procedures
Does not disrupt blood supply: Combination of axial vessels along the fascia and perpendicular vessels from deeper tissue layers
Advantages to medial exposure
o Less dissection
o Less disruption of blood supply
o Direct visualization of sesamoids
o Preserves the dorsal synovial fold
o Contracture is out of the plane of motion
o Reinforces correction because it is in the plane of deformity
Disadvantages of medial exposure
o No access for adductor transfer
o Less visualization for lateral release if needed
o No access to EHB
o Hypertrophy of scar may lead to pain in shoes.
Scar tissue contracture
o Fibrosis of subcutaneous and capsular structures leads to limited motion
o Most detrimental in the plane of motion
o Limited by careful tissue handling, proper placement, and early range of motion
Incision landmarks
o Midpoint medial on the: shaft, metatarsal head, and proximal phalanx
o Slightly curved in appearance
o Splits the dorsal and plantar neurovascular bundles on the medial side
Capsulotomy
- Landmarks are the same as for the skin incision
- Minimal reflection is needed to provide exposure for osteotomy
- Dorsal synovial fold is left intact
Subcutaneous dissection
- Just enough to visualize the capsule
- Neurovascular bundles are left undisturbed in the dorsal and plantar flaps
- Minimal reflection is needed to expose the capsule
Joint inspection and sesamoidectomy
- Direct visualization
- Lateral ligament release is first
- Dissection is above the long flexor and parallel
Closure
- Capsule is approximated to reinforce correction
- Subcutaneous layer and skin is closed in standard fashion
SOFT TISSUE AND PHALANGEAL OSTEOTOMIES
- 1st MPJ Capsulotomies
- Lateral Release
- Silver Bunionectomy
- McBride Bunionectomy
- Adductor Tendon Transfer
- SHOULD ONLY BE PERFORMED ON POSITIONAL DEFORMITIES
Contraindications to Isolated Soft Tissue Procedures
- Degenerative joint changes
- Restricted ROM at MTPJ
- Pain with joint stress
- A track-bound joint
- Congruous MTPJ
- IM angle > 12
- HAA > 40
First MTPJ capsulotomies
- There are many different incision shapes… It’s just “surgeon preference”
- Should give good exposure for procedure being performed
- Meticulous closure, do not overlap
- No capsular closure can correct a structural deformity
First MPJ capsulorrhaphy
- Reefing of the medial capsule
- Removing redundant capsule
- Too aggressive of a capsulorrhaphy can cause hallux varus or a stiff MTPJ with jamming
- Inadequate repair of the capsule can lead to loss of correction (…or is it that we didn’t actually address the deformity)
Lateral release (read on your own)
- Perform to realign the first metatarsal head over the sesamoids and release contracture (Is this needed if sesamoids are actually where they should be relative to the crista?)
Includes release of:
o Conjoined adductor hallucis tendon,
o Deep transverse intermetatarsal ligament
o Lateral collateral ligament (vertical capsulotomy)
o Fibular suspensory ligament (fibular sesamoid release)
Do not release fibular suspensory ligament if you want the sesamoids to move with the metatarsal head
Silver bunionectomy
- Partial ostectomy of the first metatarsal head
- Does not correct the etiology of the problem
- Removes bump only (which may indeed be an artifact in many cases)
- Cons: Weakens medial structures, causing more lateral drift, Progression of deformity continues
Silver bunionectomy: Indications
- Medial bump pain with shoe wear (Neuritic pain)
- Bunion deformity present
- Pain-free and adequate ROM
- Medial bursa
- HAV, mild
Silver bunionectomy: Technique
- Access joint
- Saw used to remove medial eminence
- Care to preserve sagittal groove for sesamoid
- Ambulate post-op
Staking the head
- Removing too much of the bone and loosing part of the articular surface
- Take more bone dorsally and preserve tibial sesamoid shelf to prevent hallux varus
Advantages of silver bunionectomy
- Quick
- Little edema
- Easy
- No special equipment
- Early WB and return to shoe gear
Disadvantages of silver bunionectomy
- Doesn’t address etiology
- Weakens medial MPJ and results in further abductovalgus
McBride Bunionectomy
- Removal of medial eminence (Silver)
- Release or transfer of adductor hallucis tendon into medial met head
- May include removal of fibular sesamoid
- Often used in combination with osseous procedures for structural deformities to rebalance soft tissues
McBride Bunionectomy: Indications
- Medial bump pain with shoe gear
- Pain with tibial or fibular sesamoid
- HAV deformity
- Pain-free and adequate ROM
- Medial bursa
- Deviated to subluxed 1st MPJ
- Frontal plane deviation of sesamoids
McBride Bunionectomy: Technique
- Access joint
- Capsulotomy
- Remove medial eminence with saw
- Lateral release
- Possible removal of fibular sesamoid
- Adductor Hallucis tendon transfer
Fibular Sesamoid: To Remove or Not to Remove?
- Controversial
- “Deforming force” (Or is it that we don’t realign it appropriately by addressing the coronal plane?)
- “Must address it”
- Con: if you remove it, “may end up with a hallux varus” - Quoted, but literature does not support
- Likely only if done in conjunction w/ other procedure that put at risk for hallux varus
- Pro: if you remove it, less chance of recurrence (or address the deformity and decrease risk of recurrence)
- Recent evidence does NOT support the removal of the fibular sesamoid this at all
McBride bunionectomy
Advantages
o Early WB
o Minimal bone resection
Disadvantages
o Limited correction as isolated procedure
o Cannot be used alone for a structural deformity
Adductor tendon transfer (did not talk about – “not common”)
- Transfer tendon to medial aspect of 1st MPJ
- Relocates sesamoids, closes down IM angle
- Requirements for sesamoid realignment: Normal crista, no degenerative sesamoids, no osteotomy in conjunction,
- Frontal plane deviation of sesamoids? The sesamoids are where they should be – the entire complex with the 1st met is rotated
Complications of all soft tissue procedures
- Recurrence
- Hallux varus
- Joint jamming
Hallux phalangeal osteotomies
- Phalangeal osteotomies originally described by Akin in 1925.
- Original procedure included:
o Resection of medial eminence 1st met head
o Resection of medial base proximal phalanx
o Phalanx osteotomy - Correct structural deformity at some level within the hallux.
Hallux osteotomies: Indications
- Pain
- Hallux abuts 2nd toe
- HAV
- Congruous 1st MTPJ
- Long proximal phalanx
- Structural deformity within the hallux
Proximal akin
- Medial closing wedge osteotomy in metaphyseal bone of proximal hallux
- Lateral hinge left intact
- Hinge should be perpendicular to WB surface