Size Does Matter: The Role of Patient’s Body Surface Predicting Surgical Difficulty in Total Knee Replacement

Ignacio Moya, Eduardo Tornero, Montserrat Tió, Andrés Combalia, Sergi Sastre and Luís Lozano
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Eduardo Tornero: Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisés Broggi – Consorci Sanitat Integral. Carrer de Jacint Verdaguer, Spain
Andrés Combalia: Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. Carrer de Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
Sergi Sastre: Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Luís Lozano: Institut d’ Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, 2019, vol. 14, issue 3, 78-82

Abstract: Total knee replacement (TKR) is a frequently performed surgery with reported very positive outcomes. However, the difficulty of TKR surgery can vary greatly between patients. Many factors have been related to higher surgical difficulty in TKR, but the role of patient anthropometry is still unclear. Although patient Body Mass Index (BMI) is known to affect the postoperative outcome after TKR, it has not proved to be a reliable predictor of surgical difficulty. The aim of this work was to state whether if the patient’s overall size, measured with the patient’s body surface, had a direct impact on surgical difficulty.

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Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2019.14.555890

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