TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgical Technique for Below-knee Amputation with Concurrent Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
AU - Daugherty, Timothy H.F.
AU - Parikh, Rajiv
AU - Mailey, Brian A.
AU - Felder, John M.
AU - Bueno, Reuben A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Summary: Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is beneficial for decreasing pain following below-knee amputation (BKA). While most current literature describes the principles behind primary TMR, they provide few principles key to the amputation, as the BKA is usually performed by another surgeon. When the BKA and TMR are performed by the same surgeon, it can be performed through the same surgical access as needed for both procedures. The purpose of this article is to describe our anatomically based BKA technique in the setting of planned primary TMR as performed by 3, single, peripheral nerve plastic surgeons at 2 institutions. Advantages of the single-surgeon technique include efficiency in dissection, preservation of donor nerve length, limited proximal dissection, early identification of recipient motor nerves for coaptation, ability to stimulate these while still under tourniquet, and decreased tourniquet and operative time. This technique is quick, reliable, and reproducible to help promote widespread adoption of TMR at the time of BKA.
AB - Summary: Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is beneficial for decreasing pain following below-knee amputation (BKA). While most current literature describes the principles behind primary TMR, they provide few principles key to the amputation, as the BKA is usually performed by another surgeon. When the BKA and TMR are performed by the same surgeon, it can be performed through the same surgical access as needed for both procedures. The purpose of this article is to describe our anatomically based BKA technique in the setting of planned primary TMR as performed by 3, single, peripheral nerve plastic surgeons at 2 institutions. Advantages of the single-surgeon technique include efficiency in dissection, preservation of donor nerve length, limited proximal dissection, early identification of recipient motor nerves for coaptation, ability to stimulate these while still under tourniquet, and decreased tourniquet and operative time. This technique is quick, reliable, and reproducible to help promote widespread adoption of TMR at the time of BKA.
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U2 - 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002990
DO - 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002990
M3 - Article
C2 - 32802678
AN - SCOPUS:85089553004
SN - 2169-7574
JO - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open
JF - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open
ER -