/ Eveluation of Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes

• Main Authors: Deniz Kargın, Erhan Serin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University 2018-03-01
• Series: Acta Medica Alanya
• Subjects: gonartrosis; knee; arthroplasty; artroplasti; gonartroz; diz
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/medalanya/issue/36004/372455?publisher=alku

Aim: In this study, we retrospectively evaluated our total knee arthroplasty outcomes and discussed our results with the current literature.Patient and Methods: From 51 patients, 40 patients 65 knees were included to the study after excluding patients with enough follow-up. Revised by American Knee Society, scoring systems filled by patients with face to face encounter before and after surgery were collected. Results: Age range of the patients were 54 to 75 (mean 61.15) years. Range of the follow-up was 11 to 74 (mean 29.3) months. Range of the preoperative knee range of motion was 60° to 95° (77.3°) and postoperative range of motion was 100° to 120° (mean114.4°) (p:0.03). Radiological preoperative evaluation of the patients revealed that 60 (92.3%) knees had varus alignment and 5(7.7%) knees had valgus alignment. Postoperatively, 14 knees (21.5%) had varus, 19(29.2%) knees had neutral and 32(49.3%) knees had valgus alignment. Preoperative Scores were low with a range of 35 to 68 (mean 44.8). Postoperative knee scores were good with a range of 72 to 96 (mean 86.3).                 Conclusion: Total knee arthroplasty surgery is a good treatment option especially for the patients with severe joint degeneration and destruction, which are not be able to be treated with conservative treatments, and also in pain relief in patients with severe knee pain.