Moving forward
in partial knee
MINIMALLY INVASIVE, MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE
As the other members of the GMK Family, the GMK UNI offers a complete product range to fit different surgeon’s preferences and patient’s conditions.
The GMK UNI has been conceived to be soft tissue friendly. Both implant and instrumentation are designed to fit muscle sparing surgical approaches.
4 sizes
Material: Cobalt-Chrome (Co-Cr-Mo ISO 5832-4)
Cemented
5 Right Medial / Left Lateral sizes
5 Left Medial / Right Lateral sizes
Material: Cobalt-Chrome (Co-Cr-Mo ISO 5832-4)
Cemented
5 sizes
Seven levels of thickness: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 mm
5 Right Medial / Left Lateral sizes
5 Left Medial / Right Lateral sizes
Six levels of thickness: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 mm
Cemented
Unique internal shape, compatible with all sizes and incorporating the same position for the posterior peg, allows the choice of femoral size right up until the final step of the surgical procedure.
Round-on-flat articulation avoids unwanted stresses on the tibial compartment.
The mirror polished fixed tibial baseplate minimises backside wear on the polyethylene inlay.
Optimal primary tibial metalback fixation and ease implant positioning thanks to their MIS-Friendly design: tibial keel and oblique fixation peg.
Full-PE tibial component allows simple, accurate and time-effective implantation.
POLYETHYLENE
Published papers show that polyethylene that does not undergo any irradiation or thermal treatments, that may affect mechanical properties, may show reduced potential of delamination[1]. Medacta provides machined, non-irradiated polyethylene for all GMK tibial inserts.
MINIMALLY INVASIVE, MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE
The GMK UNI instruments have been designed to enable the surgeon to perform a safe and reproducible implantation using a muscle sparing surgical technique, without dislocating the patella.
The GMK UNI cutting blocks are designed with round and soft tissue-friendly profiles to suit limited exposure and patella-in-place procedures.
Fill the gap Instrumentation: accurately managing soft tissues and ligaments, flexion and extension gaps are seamlessly translated into femoral resection levels.
Only 2 trays: the GMK UNI instruments are organized in a very compact layout.
DESIGN RATIONALE
[1] Ries M D, “Highly Cross-Linked Polyethylene. The Debate is Over-In Opposition”, The Journal of Arthroplasty, 20:59-62, 2005.
[2] Kondo et al. “Arthroscopy for evaluation of polyethylene wear after total knee arthroplasty”, J Orthop Sci, 13:433-437, 2008. Orthop Sci, 13:433-437, 2008
[3] Baker et al., “The effects of degree of Crosslinking on the fatigue crack initiation and propagation resistane of orthopedic-grade polyethylene”, J Biomed Mater Res A, 66(1):146-54, 2002.
[4] Muratoglu et al., “Unified wear model for highly crosslinked ultra-high molecular weight polyethylenes (UHMWPE)”, Biomaterials, 20:1463-70, 1999.
[5] Polyethylene in TKA: Do we really need cross-linked polyethylene?, MORE Journal Vol. 1 May 2011
EXPERIENCE THE SYNERGY BETWEEN THE GMK UNI AND MYKNEE
Medacta offers you the opportunity to experience an unicondylar knee replacement system with the enhanced accuracy and proven efficiency of a system specifically designed for each individual patient: the synergy between GMK UNI and MyKnee UNI.
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