No Decrease in Knee Survivorship or Outcomes Scores for Patients With HIV Infection Who Undergo TKA.

CONCLUSIONS: With the numbers available, we found that patients with HIV had no differences in clinical scores and implant survivorship compared with patients without the disease at mid-term followup. We believe practitioners should not be reluctant to perform TKA on this patient population. However, we believe the preoperative optimization process is crucial to achieving good outcomes and minimizing the risk of complications. Future comparative studies should have longer followup and a larger sample size with greater power to determine if there are differences in complications and implant survivorship.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study.
PMID: 27743304 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - October 13, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Issa K, Pierce TP, Harwin SF, Scillia AJ, Festa A, Mont MA Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research