Survivorship of AGC knee replacement in juvenile chronic arthritis

Quality of Life After TKA for Patients With Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

“…Parvizi et al [24] reported on 13 patients undergoing TKA with a mean followup of 10.7 years, and Thomas et al [33] reported on 10 patients undergoing TKA with a mean followup of 6 years, but these studies did not comment on patient satisfaction. Lybäck et al [18] reported an overall ''subjective contentment'' of 75% of the patients. In our study, after surgery, all patients rated themselves as satisfied with pain relief, but satisfaction ratings were much lower for self-care activities (bathing and dressing), heavy activities (gardening, lifting), and recreational activities.…”

“…Hargreaves et al [12] reported wound healing problems in 26% of patients with JRA. A search of computerized medical databases located 10 additional studies of outcomes of TKA in patients with JRA [4,7,8,18,23,24,26,29,32,33]. Unlike the reports of 55% to 80% improvement in pain after TKA in JRA [8,23,24,26,32,33], improvements in functional outcome measures and other instruments have been less positive than generally seen in TKA for osteoarthritis.…”

Survival of the AGC total knee arthroplasty is similar for arthrosis and rheumatoid arthritis

“…The outcome of cemented and cementless arthroplasties has been discussed in many studies. Lybäck et al (2000) documented 99% overall survival after up to 13 years of AGC knee endoprosthesis in juvenile 7 1985-1989 446 97.4 (95.3-98.5) 96.0 (93.5-97.5) 1990-1994 845 97.0 (95.6-98.0) 95.7 (93.8-97.0) 1995-1999 870 96.7 (94.6-97.9) -a Log-Rank test for difference in survival curves between groups. chronic arthritis, and found cementless fixation to be better.…”

Survival of Bi-Metric femoral stems in 77 total hip arthroplasties for juvenile chronic arthritis

“…Patients may have multiple joint involvement and they probably have to undergo many joint reconstructions. Lyback et al [17] presented in the series of 77 total knee arthroplasties in patients with JCA that 70% of the patients had also undergone hip, 17% elbow and 13% shoulder replacement during the follow-up.…”