Erschienen in:
01.04.2014 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Risk Factors for Revision Within 10 Years of Total Knee Arthroplasty
verfasst von:
Tae Kyun Kim, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 4/2014
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Excerpt
Revision TKA is a challenge to all involved parties. It is a technically demanding procedure to surgeons, an intervention with a real risk of complications to patients, and a financial burden to societies. For the past several decades, enormous efforts have been made to reduce the frequency of this difficult clinical challenge. Despite these efforts, the number of revision TKAs has continued to increase [
3,
4,
7,
9], and is expected to grow in the coming decades as the number of primary TKAs continues to increase [
5]. A comprehensive understanding of risk factors for failure of primary TKAs would be critical to our efforts to minimize the revision burden. …