Alexia Karantana
Clinical Associate Professor in Hand Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Biography
Alexia Karantana is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Hand Surgery at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and Clinical Associate Professor of Hand Surgery at the University of Nottingham. She is based at the newly established Centre for Evidence Based Hand Surgery and works closely with the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) to promote high quality multi-centre clinical research in common hand conditions. As part of her collaborative role, she is also based at the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit one day per week.
Alexia Karantana was born and educated in Greece. She came to the UK as an Erasmus fellow with the University of Bristol. This was followed by Basic Surgical Training in Bristol and Specialist Registrar training on the Mid-Trent orthopaedic rotation. In parallel to her registrar surgical training, she completed a PhD with the University of Nottingham in 2014. The topic centred on a randomised controlled trial investigating the surgical treatment of distal radius fractures. She trained in Hand Surgery at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and as national ATP Hand Surgery Fellow in Manchester.
Her main research interests are in common hand conditions (such as hand injuries, distal radius fractures and Dupuytren's) clinical outcomes research, randomised trials and economic evaluation.
Selected Publications
KARANTANA, A., DAVIS, T. R. C., SCAMMELL, B. E. and WHYNES, D. K., 2015. Cost-effectiveness of volar locking plate versus percutaneous fixation for distal radial fractures BONE & JOINT JOURNAL. 97B(9), 1264-1270 KARANTANA, ALEXIA, DOWNING, NICHOLAS D., FORWARD, DAREN P., HATTON, MARK, TAYLOR, ANDREW M., SCAMMELL, BRIGITTE E., MORAN, CHRIS G. and DAVIS, TIM R. C., 2013. Surgical Treatment of Distal Radial Fractures with a Volar Locking Plate Versus Conventional Percutaneous Methods A Randomized Controlled Trial JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME. 95A(19), 1737-1744 HARRISON E, TAN W, MILLS N, KARANTANA A, SPRANGE K, DULEY L, ELLIOTT D, BLAZEBY J, HOLLINGWORTH W, MONTGOMERY AA and DAVIS T, 2017. A feasibility study investigating the acceptability and design of a multicentre randomised controlled trial of needle fasciotomy versus limited fasciectomy for the treatment of Dupuytren's contractures of the fingers (HAND-1): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 18(1), 392 HANDOLL HHG, ELLIOTT J, IHEOZOR-EJIOFOR Z, HUNTER J and KARANTANA A, 2016. Interventions for treating wrist fractures in children Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016. CD012470
HARRISON E, TAN W, MILLS N, KARANTANA A, SPRANGE K, DULEY L, ELLIOTT D, BLAZEBY J, HOLLINGWORTH W, MONTGOMERY AA and DAVIS T, 2017. A feasibility study investigating the acceptability and design of a multicentre randomised controlled trial of needle fasciotomy versus limited fasciectomy for the treatment of Dupuytren's contractures of the fingers (HAND-1): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 18(1), 392 HANDOLL HHG, ELLIOTT J, IHEOZOR-EJIOFOR Z, HUNTER J and KARANTANA A, 2016. Interventions for treating wrist fractures in children Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016. CD012470 KARANTANA A, RODRIGUES J and DAVIS T, 2016. Measurement and assessment in modern hand surgery research Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics. 4(4), 56-58 KARANTANA, A., DAVIS, T. R. C., SCAMMELL, B. E. and WHYNES, D. K., 2015. Cost-effectiveness of volar locking plate versus percutaneous fixation for distal radial fractures BONE & JOINT JOURNAL. 97B(9), 1264-1270 KARANTANA, ALEXIA, DOWNING, NICHOLAS D., FORWARD, DAREN P., HATTON, MARK, TAYLOR, ANDREW M., SCAMMELL, BRIGITTE E., MORAN, CHRIS G. and DAVIS, TIM R. C., 2013. Surgical Treatment of Distal Radial Fractures with a Volar Locking Plate Versus Conventional Percutaneous Methods A Randomized Controlled Trial JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME. 95A(19), 1737-1744 KARANTANA, A. and DAVIS, T. R. C., 2012. Extra-Articular Fractures of the Distal Radius - A European View Point HAND CLINICS. 28(2), 145-150 KARANTANA, A., BOULTON, C., BOULIOTIS, G., SHU, K.S.S., SCAMMELL, B.E. and MORAN, C.G., 2011. Epidemiology and outcome of fracture of the hip in women aged 65 years and under: a cohort study Bone & Joint Journal. 93-B(5), 658-664 KARANTANA, ALEXIA, HOBSON, SALLY and DHAR, SUNIL, 2010. The Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement Survivorship at 5 and 8 Years Comparable to Other Series CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH. 468(4), 951-957 KARANTANA, ALEXIA, GEOGHEGAN, JOHN MARTIN, SHANDIL, MAYANK and DHAR, SUNIL, 2010. Simultaneous Bilateral Total Ankle Replacement Using the STAR: A Case Series FOOT & ANKLE INTERNATIONAL. 31(1), 86-89 HOBSON, S. A., KARANTANA, A. and DHAR, S., 2009. Total ankle replacement in patients with significant pre-operative deformity of the hindfoot JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME. 91B(4), 481-486 ROGERS, MARK, BLOM, ASHLEY W., BARNETT, ANDREW, KARANTANA, ALEXIA and BANNISTER, GORDON C., 2009. Revision for recurrent dislocation of Total Hip Replacement HIP INTERNATIONAL. 19(2), 109-113 DOWNING, N. D. and KARANTANA, A., 2008. A revolution in the management of the distal radius? JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME. 90B(10), 1271-1275 KARANTANA, A., DOWNS-WHEELER, M. J., WEBB, K., PEARCE, C. A., JOHNSON, A. and BANNISTER, G. C., 2006. The effects of scaphoid and colles casts on hand function JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-BRITISH AND EUROPEAN VOLUME. 31B(4), 436-438 GILL, T S, KARANTANA, A, REES, J, PANDEY, S and DIXON, A R, 2004. Laparoscopic proctocolectomy with restorative ileal-anal pouch. Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. 6(6), 458-61
EDWARDS, AG, DONALDSON, O, WALSH, E and KARANTANA, A, 2003. Medical staff need to be aware of major incident planning BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 326(7392), 762-762