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Stefano Zaffagnini

Professore ordinario

Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Neuromotorie

Settore scientifico disciplinare: MEDS-19/A Malattie dell’apparato locomotore

Direttore Scuola di Specializzazione Ortopedia e Traumatologia (DI 68/2015)

Coordinatore del Corso di Laurea in Tecniche ortopediche (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di tecnico ortopedico)

Pubblicazioni

Micicoi, G.; Sculco, P. K.; Zaffagnini, S.; Boettner, F.; Hirschmann, M. T.; Lustig, S., Alignment and/or ligament balancing? Towards truly personalized total knee arthroplasty—A narrative review, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS», 2026, 13, Article number: e70713, pp. 1 - 15 [articolo]Open Access

Di Paolo, S.; Mendicino, M.; Palha De Araujo Dos Santos, J. M.; Nijmeijer, E.; Heuvelmans, P.; Della Villa, F.; Gokeler, A.; Benjaminse, A.; Zaffagnini, S., Development and Validation of an Algorithm for Foot Contact Detection in High-Dynamic Sports Movements Using Inertial Measurement Units, «SENSORS», 2026, 26, Article number: 988, pp. 1 - 14 [articolo]Open Access

Oettl, F. C.; Pruneski, J.; Zsidai, B.; Yu, Y.; Fendrich, D.; Tischer, T.; Hirschmann, M. T.; Zaffagnini, S.; Samuelsson, K., From de-skilling to up-skilling: How artificial intelligence will augment the modern physician, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS», 2026, 13, Article number: e70677, pp. 1 - 8 [articolo]Open Access

Grenno, Giulia; Valente, Giordano; Dal Fabbro, Giacomo; Macchiarola, Luca; Grassi, Alberto; Zaffagnini, Stefano; Taddei, Fulvia, High tibial osteotomy leads to medial-lateral redistribution of knee internal forces during walking and stair ambulation and improves patient-reported outcomes, «KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY», 2026, N/A, pp. N/A - N/A [articolo]

Fratini, Stefano; Cerasoli, Tosca; Meena, Amit; Di Paolo, Stefano; Bonaiuti, Margherita; Romagnoli, Matteo; Zaffagnini, Stefano; Marcheggiani Muccioli, Giulio Maria, Influence of Implant Design on Failure Rates in Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Meta-Analysis, «THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY», 2026, 41, pp. 238 - 248 [articolo]Open Access

Di Paolo, S.; Agostinone, P.; Ambrosini, L.; Bonaiuti, Margherita; Lucidi, G. A.; Macchiarola, L.; Grassi, A.; Zaffagnini, S., Isolated medial meniscus allograft transplant intraoperatively restores anteroposterior knee stability as effectively as isolated anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, «KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY», 2026, N/A, pp. N/A - N/A [articolo]

Lucidi, Gian Andrea; Balboni, Giovanni; Solaro, Luca; Bonaiuti, Margherita; Di Paolo, Stefano; Zaffagnini, Stefano, Medial hinge fracture after closing wedge high tibial osteotomy: Proposing a new classification and risk factor analysis of a neglected complication, «KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY», 2026, 34, pp. 1014 - 1023 [articolo]Open Access

Tassinari, Enrico; Minerba, Andrea; Basile, Tommaso; Bucciarelli, Alessio; Traina, Francesco; Grigolo, Brunella; Zaffagnini, Stefano; Olivotto, Eleonora, Post‐operative injection of hydrolyzed collagen peptides shows anti‐inflammatory effect in patients with femoroacetabular impingement improving the early recovery, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS», 2026, 12, pp. 1 - 10 [articolo]

Kayaalp, M. E.; Zaffagnini, S.; Mont, M. A.; Karlsson, J.; Reider, B.; Ayeni, O.; Heyse, T.; Madry, H.; Herbst, E.; Milano, G.; Musahl, V.; Becker, R.; Hirschmann, M. T., Preserving scientific integrity in academic publishing: Navigating artificial intelligence, journal policies and the impact factor as a quality indicator, «KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY», 2026, 34, pp. 1150 - 1156 [articolo]Open Access

Ciaffi, Jacopo; Bianchi, Lorenzo; Gambarotti, Marco; Righi, Alberto; Giuggioli, Dilia; Caporali, Roberto; Faldini, Cesare; Zaffagnini, Stefano; Huizinga, Tom W. J.; Ursini, Francesco, Revisiting osteoarthritis as an inflammatory disease: characterization of synovitis grading and synovial pathotypes in surgical specimens, «ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY», 2026, N/A, pp. 1 - 30 [articolo]

Andriolo, L.; De Marziani, L.; Di Martino, A.; Boffa, A.; Zanasi, L.; Roveda, G.; Miale, R.; Zaffagnini, S., Safety and Survival Rate of a Biomimetic Osteochondral Scaffold for the Treatment of Lesions of the Knee Articular Surface, «ORTHOPAEDIC JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE», 2026, 14, pp. N/A - N/A [articolo]

Grassi, A.; Rossi, C.; Ambrosini, L.; Nakanishi, Y.; Ozbek, E. A.; Assaf, A.; Kayano, H.; Alhalalmeh, M. I.; Borque, K.; Zaffagnini, S., Simplified Knee MRI ‘Sagittal Tibial Epi-Physis (STEP)’ Shorthand for Skeletal Age Assessment in Pediatric Patients with ACL Injury, «DIAGNOSTICS», 2026, 16, Article number: 442, pp. 1 - 12 [articolo]Open Access

Cerasoli, T.; Favero, A.; Coliva, F.; Fogacci, A.; Pasquini, A.; Zaffagnini, S.; Marcheggiani Muccioli, G. M., Sport participation after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: High return rates independent of implant design or technique, a systematic review and meta-analysis, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS», 2026, 13, Article number: e70514, pp. 1 - 10 [articolo]Open Access

Oettl, F. C.; Zsidai, B.; Yu, Y.; Pruneski, J.; Tischer, T.; Pareek, A.; Grassi, A.; Zaffagnini, S.; Hirschmann, M. T.; Samuelsson, K., Standardised Transparent Orthopaedic Reporting and Modelling for AI (STORM-AI)—Guidelines for reporting artificial intelligence studies in orthopaedics from the ESSKA AI Working Group, «JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ORTHOPAEDICS», 2026, 13, Article number: e70702, pp. 1 - 13 [articolo]Open Access

Gaudes, C.; Eggeling, L.; Rinaldi, V. G.; Dejour, D.; Zaffagnini, S.; Becker, R.; Kopf, S., Underestimation of tibial tuberosity–trochlear groove distance in conventional knee magnetic resonance imaging compared to full-extension imaging, «KNEE SURGERY, SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY, ARTHROSCOPY», 2026, N/A, pp. N/A - N/A [articolo]