Table 1: Summary of recent articles evaluating complex clubfoot.

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.