Practical guidance for clinicians to optimise orthopaedic outcomes in achondroplasia: International Achondroplasia Forum guiding principles
These guiding principles aim to improve outcomes for people with achondroplasia by reducing treatment heterogeneity and providing recommendations to caregivers. Consultation with an experienced and specialised multidisciplinary team, emphasis on non-surgical approaches to address orthopaedic symptoms and the conduct of essential surgical procedures only in specialised centres form the core of the guiding principles.
Authors
- Philip Kunkel
- Simone Riganti
- Geert R. Mortier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9871-4578)
- Keita Okada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4914-1793)
- Marco Sessa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5305-5133)
- Melita Irving
- Klaus Mohnike
- Antonio Leiva-Gea
- Silvio Boero
- Svein Fredwall
Institutions
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Sunnaas sykehus (NO)
- Istituto Giannina Gaslini (IT)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
- Spaarne Ziekenhuis (NL)
- Center for Human Genetics (US)
- University of Tokyo Hospital (JP)
- Italian Association for Cancer Research (IT)
- University Medical Centre Mannheim (DE)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (ES)
- Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (DE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bone
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2026.117818
- Primary Topic
- Connective tissue disorders research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00