The German Association for Foot and Ankle (D.A.F.) registry on treatment of end-stage total ankle arthritis-what is its clinical impact?

Abstract

Initially established as avoluntary prosthesis register for total ankle replacement, the registry now enables analysis of revisions, complications, and clinical and functional outcomes-including patient-reported outcome measures-based on a period spanning more than 10years. To allow analyses of the outcomes of ankle arthrodesis and supramalleolar osteotomies for treatment of end-stage arthritis in the future, the registry was extended by structured capturing of these procedures in 2018. While descriptive and analytical statistical evaluations of total ankle replacement are already possible today, the number of datasets on arthrodesis and supramalleolar osteotomies is still too small to support these analyses or comparative evaluations.