Helse Nordmøre OG Romsdal HF

Patients operated for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) at Ålesund Hospital (200 patients) will have a biopsy to diagnose ATTR amyloidosis. Patients with positive biopsy will be examined to decide wether they have cardiac amyloidosis. All patients with positive biopsy will be followed closely for 10 years wit echocardiography an clinically.

Robotic knee surgery makes it possible to adopt different alignment philosophies in total knee arthroplasty. The classical operation where the knee is placed in a neutral manner, the so called mechanical alignment, has been used for decades. The kinematical alignment has recently won popularity. With this technique the focus is to render the natural knee anatomy even if this means to end up with a varus or valgus position. In this study, the investigators will compare the mechanical alignment and kinematical alignment and test the patients clinically and with a special CT scan to see if this technique gives equal or better longevity of the implants.

The goal of this randomized controled trial is to compare if using of ancillary screws yields equal results as no use of ancillary screws in the ACE acetabulum cup of a total hip arthroplasty. Further, the migration of the Avanteon stem over time will be assessed. Patients included are patients with hip osteoarthritis from 65-80 years old. The purpose of this study is to compare implant migration and early fixation of a hybrid hip replacement combining the uncemented ACE acetabular component and the cemented Avanteon femoral stem, by using CT based Radiostereometric Analysis, a new innovative method for evaluating implant migration. Our study may predict the long term survival of the implants used.
Participants will go through total hip arthroplasty, and be followed by CT-RSA, plain x-rays and patients reported outcome measures.