Patients Receiving A Primary Unicompartmental Knee Replacement Have A Higher Risk Of Revision But A Lower Risk Of Mortality Than Predicted Had They Received A Total Knee Replacement: Data From The National Joint Registry for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man

To determine unicompartmental (UKR) and total knee replacement (TKR) revision rates, compare UKR revision rates with what they would have been had they received TKR instead, subsequent re-revision and 90-day mortality rates.

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - September 6, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Linda P. Hunt, Ashley W. Blom, Gulraj S. Matharu, Setor K. Kunutsor, Andrew Beswick, J. Mark Wilkinson, Michael R. Whitehouse Source Type: research