Thomas W. Patt was trained in Switzerland and The Netherlands, with Dr AU Urfer (St Moritz), Dr P Burkart (Luzern), Professor W Mueller (Basel) and RK Marti (Amsterdam).
Thomas W. Patt has headed a private orthopedic clinic in Delft, The Netherlands since 2014. Tom’s professional interests are sports knee surgery, and he has specialised in mainly arthroscopic knee interventions.
Since 2010, his other real orthopaedic passion has been prevention of knee lesions in children and adolescents. In this context he chairs the European ESMA/ESSKA workgroup for prevention, the GUARDIANS of the ACL (a subgroup of the ACL study group), as well as being member of other European organisations such as the German Knee Society.
Thomas W. Patt is often invited to speak at national and international meetings, and his 2019 schedule includes New York, Vilnius, Salzburg, and Madrid.
- Results of a tri-national onlinesurvey on the current status of sports injury prevention among members of the German-Speaking Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Society (GOTS). Guideline on anterior cruciate ligament injury. Acta Orthop. 2012 Aug;83(4):379-86. doi: 10.3109/17453674.2012.704563.
- An unusual way of intramedullar fixation after a periprosthetic supracondylar femur fracture. J Arthroplasty. 2012 Mar;27(3):494.e5-8. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2011.06.037.
- The occurrence of osteoarthritis at a minimum of ten years after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. J Orthop Surg Res. 2008 Jun 10;3:24.
- Early complications after high tibial osteotomy: a comparison of two techniques. J Knee Surg. 2008 Jan;21(1):68-74.
- Arthroscopic debridement for grade III and IV chondromalacia of the knee in patients older than 60 years. J Knee Surg. 2007 Oct;20(4):271-6.
- Multi directional intertrochanteric osteotomy for primary and secondary osteoarthritis--results after 15 to 29 years. Int Orthop. 2006 Feb;30(1):15-20.
- Open reduction and internal fixation of three and four-part fractures of the proximal part of the humerus. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2002 Nov;84-A(11):1919-2.
