Erschienen in:
30.03.2017 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Have the Causes of Revision for Total and Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasties Changed During the Past Two Decades?
verfasst von:
Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, MSc
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 7/2017
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Excerpt
Knee arthroplasty remains one of the most successful treatments for patients with knee osteoarthritis who originally pursued nonsurgical care [
5,
9,
13]. Advances in prosthesis design and surgical safety have increased the number of arthroplasty procedures, with more than 700,000 of these surgeries performed annually in the United States alone [
5]—a number expected to rise when considering the aging American demographic [
2,
5,
9]. Concomitant with the rise in primary knee joint replacement procedures are burgeoning rates of revision arthroplasty [
2,
3,
7,
9]. While approximately 30,000 revision knee arthroplasties are performed per year, this number is expected to increase by a factor of six during the next 10 to 15 years [
3,
7,
13]. …