Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

MID-TERM RESULTS OF GENDER HI-FLEX KNEE IMPLANTS - VIS-A-VIS STANDARD HIGH FLEXION IMPLANTS

Dr Ankit Kedia

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 Total knee replacement is one fo the most common procedure performed for patients with osteoarthritis of knee. Knee systems with gender specific femur were introduced for a special subset of female patients, which constituted almost 61% of total patients undergoing surgery. These implants have designs for better contour and fit in females with narrower femur. This is a prospective study of 146 consecutive tkr surgeries performed in 101 female patients using high flexion knee implants. 67 patients received gender specific femur were followed up for average of 9.8 years and 34 patients received standard high flexion joints were followed up for average of 10.9 years. High flexion knee systems give excellent results with marked improvement in KSS and also survivorship at mid term followup was 96.6%. However no statistically significant difference was found in both groups in terms of KSS, range of motion, anterior knee pain or complications. There is no evidence to suggest that gender specific implants make a meaningful difference in outcome.


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MID-TERM RESULTS OF GENDER HI-FLEX KNEE IMPLANTS‾VIS-A-VIS STANDARD HIGH FLEXION IMPLANTS , Dr Ankit Kedia , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-12| December-2018

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