Dr. van Huyssteen is an Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Surgeon in private practice in Cape Town.
He has a special interest in hip revision surgery. He has an MBChB (UCT), an FRCS (Eng) and an FCOrth (SA). He did a knee and an advanced hip fellowship in Bristol, UK in 2004. He has a number of papers published in peer review journals and has presented widely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am currently a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Private Practice at Panorama Medi-Clinic. I do mainly revision and primary hip arthroplasty including resurfacing arthroplasty. I also do primary and revision knee replacements. I do many anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions and therapeutic knee and hip arthroscopy.

I have helped a number of Orthopaedic Surgeons with hip resurfacing, complex primary replacements and hip revision cases; at my institution, Groote Schuur Hospital and other hospitals country wide. The Smith and Nephew arthroplasty fellow attends my theatre regularly.

I work as visiting locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth NHS Trust, England once a year.

I have completed the Clinical Research Fellowship in Advanced Hip Surgery for Mr G Bannister, Prof I Learmonth and Mr E Smith at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, England. I did many primary hip replacements, revisions of total hip replacements and hip resurfacing. I also supervised and taught registrars.

I completed one year as a clinical fellow (specialist registrar level) to Mr J Eldridge and Mr A Weale at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre. I performed total hip and knee replacements, ACL reconstructions, patellofemoral surgery, unicompartmental knee replacements and trochleoplasties.

I have a special interest in hip and knee arthroplasty. I aim to build my practice in these disciplines especially in revision hip surgery.

  • Fellow of the College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of South Africa, FC Orth (SA), The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, Durban, 16 October 2003.

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, FRCS (Eng), The Royal College of Surgeons, London, 8 July 1999.

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB), University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town, 5 December 1994.

Cape Senior Certificate, Jan van Riebeeck High School, Gardens, Cape Town, December 1988.

  • Health Professions Council of South Africa: registered as a Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon, number MP 0430412.

  • General Medical Council: fully registered medical practitioner with specialist registration (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery), number 4245467.

  • South African Orthopaedic Association: registered as a Full Member with membership of the South African Arthroplasty Society and South African Knee Society.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England: registered as a Fellow.

September 2005 to present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Private Practice, Life Claremont Hospital and Mediclinic Panorama, Cape Town.  

1 September 2005 - 31 August 2009

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Private Practice, Life Claremont Hospital and Panorama Medi-Clinic, Cape Town.

1 January 2005 – 30 June 2005

Clinical Research Fellow in Advanced Hip Surgery to Mr G Bannister, Prof I Learmonth and Mr E Smith, Avon Orthopaedic Centre,
Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK.

4 February 2004 – 31 December 2004

Clinical Fellow to Mr J Eldridge and Mr A Weale, Bristol Royal Infirmary and Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Bristol, UK.

1 May 2002 – 31 January 2004

Senior Registrar at Groote Schuur Hospital, Princess Alice Orthopaedic Unit and Maitland Cottage Paediatric Orthopaedic Hospital, Cape Town.

1 August 1999 – 30 April 2002

Registrar at Maitland Cottage Paediatric Orthopaedic Hospital, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Princess Alice Orthopaedic Unit and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

PAPERS:

White CD, Dix-Peek S, Van Huyssteen AL, Hoffman EB.
Late-onset Blount's Disease
SA Ortho Journal 2012;11(2):29-35.

Van Huyssteen AL, Hendrix MRG, Barnett AJ, Wakeley CJ, Eldridge JD.
Cartilage-bone mismatch in the dysplastic trochlea: an MRI study.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2006;88-B:688-91.

Van Huyssteen AL, Hastings CJ, Oleksak M, Hoffman EB.
Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:710-3.

Van Huyssteen AL, Bracey DJ.
Chlorhexidine and chondrolysis in the knee.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 1999;81-B:995-6.

LETTER:
Van Huyssteen AL.
Chlorhexidine and chondrolysis in the knee.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2000;82-B:620.

ABSTRACTS:
Van Huyssteen AL, Hastings CJ, Oleksak M, Hoffman EB.
Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2003;85-B(Supp II):148-149.

Van Huyssteen AL, Davies JQ, Hastings CJ, Roche S, Hoffman EB.
Late-onset Blount’s disease: an epidemiological, radiological and histological study.
J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2001;83-B(Supp):4.

International and national:

Overview of current treatment.
Faculty chairman and speaker, Advanced Bearing Surfaces in Hip Arthroplasty Seminar, Cape Town
and Johannesburg, 25 – 26 October 2012

Trabecular metal modular acetabular component.
Speaker and faculty member, Nottingham Hip Revision Course, Cape Town, 15 – 16 March 2012.
Acetabular revision surgery using a trabecular metal acetabular component.
Speaker and faculty member, Hip and Knee Master class, Johannesburg, 20 - 21 October 2011.

Capsuloraphy and the iliofemoral ligament.
Inaugural meeting of South African Society of Hip Arthroscopy (SASHA), York, 16 August 2011.

The results of acetabular revision surgery using a trabecular metal acetabular component with a minimum follow-up of 12 months: the first 40 consecutive cases.
21st Biannual Congress of the South African Arthroplasty Society, Cape Town, 7 April 2011.
Accepted for podium presentation: Combined New Zealand and Australia Orthopaedic Associations Scientific Meeting, Rotorua, October 2011

Negative pressure wound therapy for high risk hip and knee arthroplasty incisions.
Speaker and faculty member at symposium at European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) 13th Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 June 2011.

BMHR: The South African experience.
National BMHR Launch, Cape Town, 16 October 2009.

Case presentations.
South African Knee Society Annual Meeting, Stellenbosch, 30 -31 August 2008.

Cartilage-bone mismatch in the dysplastic trochlea: an MRI study.
52nd Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Durban, 7 September 2006.

Magnetic resonance imaging in trochlear dysplasia: the importance of the cartilaginous morphology.
European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) 7th Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 4 – 7 June 2005.

The management of rheumatoid arthritis of the hand and wrist.
7th Annual Orthopaedic Registrars’ Congress, Durban, 16 May 2003.

Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis.
European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Annual Congress, London, 5 April 2003.
Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis.
48th Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Bloemfontein, 6 September 2002.

Traumatic brachial plexus injuries: current treatment.
5th Annual Orthopaedic Registrars’ Congress, Bellville, 15 June 2001.

Late-onset Blount’s disease: an epidemiological, radiological and histological study. 46th Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Durban, 12 September 2000.

LOCAL:

Advanced technology: Visionaire.
Speaker and faculty member, Knee replacement cadaver workshop, Tygerberg Hospital, 20 July
2012.
Hip resurfacing and revision: what's new.
Quarterly CPD Meeting, Cape Town, 27 August 2011.

Hip pain in the young adult.
Quarterly CPD Meeting, Cape Town, 24 July 2010

BMHR update and registry.
Metal-on-Metal User Group Meeting, Cape Town, 21 July 2010.

Trabecular metal experience.
Zimmer Trabecular Metal Meeting, Cape Town, 16 March 2010.

Case presentations.
Hip Revision Round Table, Cape Town, 17 November 2009.

BMHR: The South African experience.
BHR User Group Meeting, Cape Town, 16 September 2009.

Hip pain in the young adult: new treatment methods.
Panorama Medi-Clinic Clinical Meeting, Panorama, 11 August 2009.

Big heads and computers: advances in hip and knee arthroplasty.
Medi-Clinic Nurses' Training, Panorama, 3 March 2008,
Medi-Clinic Senior Information Session, Panorama, 26 October 2007,
Panorama Medi-Clinic Clinical Meeting, Panorama, 31 October 2006,
Kingsbury Hospital Clinical Meeting, Claremont, 24 November 2006, Association for Retired
Persons and Pensioners’ Annual Meeting, Cape Town, 12 July 2006.

The treatment of knee injuries.
Kingsbury and Claremont Hospitals Trauma Meeting, Claremont, 16 August 2007.
Reconstruction of bilateral dislocated hips (DDH): a case report.
The 19th Biennial South African Arthroplasty Society Congress, Drakensberg, 18 April 2007,
Cape Town Hip Meeting, Constantiaberg, April 2007.

The treatment of hip fractures
Kingsbury and Claremont Hospitals Trauma Meeting, Claremont, 14 March 2007

A ballet dancer with a flat head.
Kingsbury Hospital Clinical Meeting, Cape Town, 31 March 2006.

Patellofemoral dysplasia and trochleoplasty.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, 14 October 2005.

Van Huyssteen AL.
Early results of a prospective study of the Birmingham mid head resection (BMHR) hip replacement.
21st Biannual Congress of the South African Arthroplasty Society, Cape Town, 6-9 April 2011.
Accepted as a poster: Combined New Zealand and Australia Orthopaedic Associations Scientific Meeting, Rotorua, October 2011

Van Huyssteen AL, Hendrix MRG, Wakeley CJ, Eldridge JD.
Magnetic resonance imaging in trochlear dysplasia: the importance of the cartilaginous morphology.
British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) Spring Meeting, Newcastle, 18 -19 March 2006.
Panceltic Orthopaedic Meeting, Ayrshire, 15 – 16 June 2006.

Co-investigator: A prospective, open, non-comparative, multi-centre study to evaluate the functionality and dressing performance of a new negative pressure enhanced dressing in acute wounds, Smith and Nephew International Wound Division, 3 August – 19 November 2010.

Co-investigator: A prospective cohort study to identify those variables associated with good clinical outcomes after hip resurfacing arthroplasty in young patients, Smith and Nephew South Africa, 1 June 2007 – current.

I am the lead physician in the South African National Registry on the Birmingham Mid-Head Resection Resurfacing, commenced 2010.
I am a regular contributor to the South African Orthopaedic Association Arthroplasty Register.
At Groote Schuur Hospital I did an ongoing audit of all patients treated in the department for our quarterly morbidity and mortality meeting.
I performed an audit entitled: Patient awareness of osteoporosis and information given after Colles’fracture in the over 50’s. This was presented at the Directorate of Locomotor Disorders audit meeting, Treliske Hospital, June 1999.

I am currently involved in the following research:

  • The use of TMT in acetabular revision surgery.
  • Hip replacement using large metal on metal bearing surfaces.

I have attended and contributed at the following:

  • Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 19 – 23 May 2012.
  • European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) 13th Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 June 2011.
  • 21st Biannual Congress of the South African Arthroplasty Society, Cape Town, 7 April 2011.
  • American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual Meeting, San Diego, California, 15 – 19 February 2011.
  • Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 23 – 26 May 2010.
  • Computer Assisted Knee and Hip Surgery Meeting, Shamwari, Port Elizabeth, 5 – 7 June 2009.
  • Surgeon Visitation: Dr Marc Phillapon, Hip Arthroscopy, Vail, Colorado, 1 – 3 April 2009.
  • The 20th Biennial South African Arthroplasty Society Congress, Sun City, 18 – 22 March 2009.
  • Minimally Invasive Hip Meeting, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 18 – 19 February 2009.
  • Antibiotic Review Group Meetings, Cape Town, 2008 and 2009.
  • Revision Knee Workshop, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland, 9 – 10 October 2008.
  • Biological Healing Meeting, Sport Science Institute, Cape Town, 11 – 13 September 2008.
  • 54th Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Cape Town, 1 – 5 September 2008.
  • Birmingham Hip Resurfacing surgeon visitation, Mr Ronan Treacy, Birmingham, England,  23 – 24 June 2008.
  • The 19th Biennial South African Arthroplasty Society Congress, Drakensberg, 16 – 20 April 2007.
  • 52nd Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Durban, 6 – 10 September 2006.
  • Proxima Course and Cadaver Workshop, Pretoria, 20 July 2006.
  • Computer Assisted Surgery Demonstration, Cape Town, 5 June 2006.
  • Hip Arthroscopy Meeting, Cape Town, 11 May 2006.
  • Unicompartmental Knee Replacement Master-class, Johannesburg, 5 April 2006.
  • CLS Spotorno Stem Meeting, Winterthur, Switzerland & Pietra Ligure, Italy, 20 – 24 February 2006.
  • European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) 7th Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 4 – 7 June 2005
  • The 4th Interactions in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Meeting, Hertfordshire, 16 – 17 May 2005
  • Intelligent Hip Surgery Course, Brussels, 10 – 12 May 2005.
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Society Annual Instructional Course, Bristol, 15 April 2005.
  • Smith and Nephew Travelling Knee Fellow Lectures, Bristol, 21 March 2005.
  • Exeter Hip Symposium, Exeter, 8 – 9 November 2004.
  • Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Course, Bristol, 4 November 2004.
  • Advances in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Meeting, Newport, 12 October 2004.
  • Oxford Unicompartmental Knee Advanced Course, Oxford, 5 – 6 July 2004. 
  • Birmingham Hip Resurfacing SpR Training Course, Birmingham, 20 May 2004.
  • Combined Bristol & Oxford Unicompartmental Arthritis Meeting, Bristol, 18 May 2004.
  • Pan Avon Infection Group Meeting on Management of Prosthetic Joint Infections, Bath, 5 May 2004.

I currently teach arthroplasty fellows and visiting orthopaedic surgeons especially in resurfacing and revision arthroplasty of the hip.

I presented the following lecture for Professor Learmonth: Introduction to Orthopaedics, 3rd year medical students from the University of Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary Education Centre, 15 April 2005.

I was also involved in the clinical teaching of 3rd year medical students from the University of Bristol and in the teaching of senior house officers and specialist registrars in the clinical environment.

My paper Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis won the prize fore best published paper in a peer review journal at the 52nd Annual Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association, Durban, 6 – 10 September 2006.

I was the winner of the South African Orthopaedic Association G.T. du Toit Registrars’ Prize at the Annual Congress, Bloemfontein, 2 - 6  September 2002 for paper entitled: Double-elevating osteotomy for late presenting infantile Blount’s disease: the importance of concomitant lateral epiphysiodesis.

I am a member of the Mediclinic Panorama Spescom committee. This is a committee representing the specialists' interests at the hospital.  

I enjoy spending time with my wife and two sons. I am a keen surfer, kite surfer and diver and enjoy swimming, snowboarding and mountain hiking. I am a registered scuba diving instructor and enjoy travelling.

1. Mr G C Bannister MD FRCS(Tr&Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital
Bristol, BS10 5NB
England
Tel: +44 (0)117 9595195
Fax: +44 (0)117 9595924
Email: Janet.Wood@nbt.nhs.uk

2. Mr J D J Eldridge FRCS(Tr&Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Trauma and Orthopaedic Department
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Bristol, BS2 8HW
England
Tel: +44 (0)117 923 0000
Fax: +44 (0)117 928 2659
Email: jonathan.eldridge@btinternet.com

3. Prof. E B Hoffman FCS(SA) Orth
Associate Professor and Head of Paediatric Orthopaedics
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Cape Town
7 Marne Avenue
Newlands, 7700
Cape Town
South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)21 674 2090
Fax: +27 (0)21 683 0691
Email: teddie@absamail.co.za