Abstract:[Objective] To compare the clinical outcomes of the high tibial osteotomy (HTO) versus unicompartmental knee arthroplas- ty (UKA) for medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee. [Methods] The Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMBASE, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and CBM database were searched for the clinical outcomes of HTO versus UKA for medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee from Janu- ary 2000 to December 2020. Literature screening, quality assessment, and data extraction were conducted based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. RevMan5.3 was used to perform the meta-analysis of parameters related to the consequences. [Results] A total of 17 studies were included, involving 1 549 knee, including 688 knees in the HTO group and 861 knees in the UKA group. As results of meta-analysis, the UKA group proved significantly superior to the HTO group in terms of postoperative complications [OR=4.52, 95%CI (2.30, 8.90) , P< 0.0001] , Lysholm score [MD= -5.53, 95% CI (-11.11, 0.05) , P=0.05] , revision rate [OR=1.67, 95% CI (1.01, 2.76) , P=0.05] . However, there were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of operation time, blood loss, other knee functional scroes, range of mo- tion, excellent and good rates of clinical consequences, as well as mechanical axis of the lower limb and cartilage degeneration measured on radiographs (P>0.05) . [Conclusion] Both HTO and UKA achieve similarly satisfactory clinical outcomes for medial compartment osteoar- thritis of the knee, whereas the UKA has advantages in terms of postoperative complications, Lysholm score and revision rate over the HTO.