Table 1: Summary of recent articles evaluating complex clubfoot. |
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Author (year) |
Patients (feet) |
Mean age in months |
Males / females |
TAT |
Mean number of casts required for correction |
Soft tissue procedures |
Mean Pirani pre- treatment |
Mean Pirani post- treatment |
Complications |
Relapse |
Follow-up in months |
Ponseti et al. (2006)2 |
50 (75) |
3 (2.2) |
31/19 |
100% (75) |
5 (2.25) |
2/50 |
NR |
NR |
22% |
14% (7/50) |
NR |
Yoshioka et al. (2010)5 |
8 (10) |
17.7 (11.25) |
5/3 |
100% (10) |
5 (1.75) |
1/8 |
NR |
NR |
0% |
37.5% (3/8) |
15.8 (5) |
Gupta et al. (2015)9 |
16 (16) |
3.2 (1) |
10/6 |
100% (16) |
7 (1.25) |
0/16 |
NR |
NR |
NR |
0% (0/16) |
24(6) |
Matar et al. (2017)6 |
11 (17) |
1.2 (2) |
9/2 |
100% (17) |
7 (1.25) |
6/17 |
5.5 (0.38) |
NR |
NR |
53% (9/17) |
84 (24) |
Elseddik et al. (2018)10 |
19 (28) |
1.25 (2.3) |
14/5 |
100% (28) |
5.6 (1) |
0/28 |
6 (0) |
0 (0.12) |
21% |
0% (0/28) |
7.5 (1.4) |
Dragoni et al. (2018)7 |
9 (9) |
NR |
NR |
100% (9) |
6 (1) |
5/9 |
NR |
NR |
NR |
56% (5/9) |
86.4 (10.8) |
Mandlecha et al. (2019)11 |
16 (27) |
4.77 |
13/3 |
100% (27) |
7.44 (1) |
NR |
5.6 (0.38) |
0.06 |
33% |
67% (3/27) |
14.8 (4) |
Duman et al. (2020)12 |
21 (32) |
4 (2.5) |
NR |
93.8% (30) |
5 (1.3) |
6/32 |
5.1 (0.5) |
NR |
NR |
12.5% (4/32) |
56 (30) |
Allende et al (2020)8 |
79 (124) |
7 (15) |
44/35 |
96% (119) |
5 (1.3) |
2/124 |
6 (1) |
0.5 (0.5) |
5.6% |
29.8% (37/124) |
49 (30) |
Agarwal et al. (2020)13 |
11 (17) |
6.7 |
8/3 |
NR |
7 |
NR |
5.8 |
0.2 |
NR |
24% (4/17) |
22.6 |
Bozkurt et al. (2021)14 |
11 (16) |
2 (1.66) |
10/1 |
100% (16) |
7 (0.75) |
NR |
5.2 (0.5) |
0.4 (0.4) |
44% |
27% (3/11) |
13.3 (1.5) |
Loose et al. (2023)15 |
13 (22) |
6.1 |
6/10 |
NR |
6.1 |
16/27 |
NR |
NR |
NR |
66.6% (18/27) |
138 |
TAT = tendoachilles tenotomy. NR = not reported. |