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SA Orthopaedic Journal

versión On-line ISSN 2309-8309
versión impresa ISSN 1681-150X

SA orthop. j. vol.7 no.1 Centurion ene./mar. 2008

 

CLINICAL ARTICLE

 

Do patients prefer a unicompartmental to a total knee replacement?

 

 

PJ (Spike) Erasmus; Lizette Pieterse; Edwin Dillon

Stellenbosch Knee Clinic, Stellenbosch Medi-Clinic In association with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Stellenbosch

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ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Very few direct comparative studies evaluating the results after unicompartmental knee replacement (UKA) and total knee replacement (TKA) are available. Only three previous studies have reported the results of UKA and TKA performed in the same patient. We report our results of simultaneous UKA and TKA in the same patient, performed under the same anaesthetic, at same the time, by the same surgeon. This is the first study to assess the results of UKA and TKA in the same patient, where all the patients had the procedures performed under the same anaesthetic at the same time
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-one patients who had simultaneous primary UKA in one knee and primary TKA in the other knee were evaluated prospectively by means of the SANE (Single Assessment Numerical Evaluation) rating. In addition each patient was asked the simple question: "Which is your preferred knee?"
RESULTS: The follow-up period was a mean of 26 months (range 12-58 months). We found a statistically significant improvement in the SANE in both the UKAs and TKAs. Eleven patients had no preference between the UKA and the TKA (52.4%), seven patients preferred the TKA (33.3%) while three patients stated that the UKA was their preferred knee (14.3%). The trend for patients to prefer the TKA was not statistically significant (p= 0.27).
CONCLUSIONS: UKAs have been shown to be kinematically superior and the preservation of the cruciate ligaments affords better proprioception than a TKA. However, the findings of this study suggest that this does not translate to a better patient preference. In view of this finding, and considering the documented inferior survival rates of UKAs, we propose that the role of UKA in the treatment of gonarthrosis be reassessed.


 

 

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Reprint requests:
Dr PJ Erasmus
G3 Stellenbosch Medi-Clinic
Die Boord, Stellenbosch
7600 tel.: (021) 882 8210; Fax: (021) 882 9915
E-mail: knee@orthoclinic.co.za

 

 

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