Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty for Younger Patients

Is Recovery Faster for Mobile-bearing Unicompartmental than Total Knee Arthroplasty?

“…Several authors have suggested age and BMI are important factors in deciding whether a UKA is a reasonable choice of implant [9,17,19,26,27,38,39]. Our cohorts were matched for these factors in order to control for this bias.…”

“…Most studies report UKA provides better functional outcomes, earlier recovery, ease of revision and lower costs, [1, 11-14, 20, 22, 25, 32, 34, 40-42] while Koskinen et al [18] in a study from the Finnish registry raise concerns that higher revision rates of UKA negate its benefits. However, multiple authors have studied the long-term results of mobilebearing UKA and found the survivorship at 10 years equivalent to that for TKA [7,9,23,28,30,37].…”

Survivorship of UKA in the middle-aged

“…Several recent studies and reviews have suggested that UKA may be a successful approach for the middle-aged patient [19][20][21][22][23]27]. Pennington et al presented a series of 46 UKAs in physically active patients b60 years.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, to date only a limited number of clinical studies [19][20][21] and review papers [22,23] have analysed the issue of UKA in patients younger than 60 years.…”

Sports, Physical Activity and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in Young Patients

“…activity [23,24]. If such expectations are not met, patients may be dissatisfied with the outcome in spite of a technically successful surgery.…”