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Long-term Outcome of Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Morbid Obesity by Jeries Hakim; Gershon Volpin; Mahmud Amashah; Faris Alkeesh; Saker Khamaisy; Miri Cohen; Jamal Ownallah is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Introduction: Patients with morbid obesity and advanced painful knee osteoarthritis are considered as poor candidates for total knee replacement. our aims were to evaluate the outcomes of tkr surgery and the risks for post-operative complications in patients with morbid obesity (bmi > 40 kg/m) as compared with obese patients (30 < bmi ≤ 40 kg/m) and non-obese patients, bmi 50 kg/m); and to present some surgical tips which can improve the tkr outcomes in morbid obese patients. ## Materials and methods: There were successive 333 patients, of them 39 patients (11.7%) were lost for follow-up. so, this series included 292 patients - 82 with bilateral tkr- and 374 tkr. the mean age was 64.3 years old (48-83 years) and the mean follow-up 10.8 years (4-17 years). the kss and fkss scores were calculated at the end of the follow-up period and compared to the pre-operative evaluation. radiographic assessment at the end of follow-up included evaluation of implant position, alignment, and presence of radiolucent lines around the implants and was compared with the immediate post-operative radiographs. statistical analysis was performed using spss v 22.0. ## Results: Our findings showed mark

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Author

Jeries Hakim; Gershon Volpin; Mahmud Amashah; Faris Alkeesh; Saker Khamaisy; Miri Cohen; Jamal Ownallah

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)