Reasons for and outcomes of performing secondary patella resurfacing after total knee arthroplasy
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This study aims to investigate reasons for and outcomes of performing Secondary Patella Resurfacing (SPR) after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). Since there is no consensus regarding whether to perform primary patella resurfacing along with TKA or not it is of interest to study the patients undergoing SPR in order to shed some light on the usefulness of this surgery. Methods: This is a descriptive case-series study conducted at Lund University Hospital, including patients from all hospitals in region Skåne. Data has been extracted from a registry for orthopedic surgery, patient journals and from X-ray images. Logistic regression is used to compute odds ratios for risk of re-revision. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) have been used to investigate the impact of SPR on patients. Results: The most common cause for SPR is found to be progression of femuropatellar osteoarthritis (66.7%). The risk of re-revision is high; 6.3%, 9.4% respective 12.1% at one year, five years respective ten years after SPR. Only a small proportion of all cases of TKA (1.05%) has had their patella resurfaced. The risk of re-revision is found to be greater for men than for women, odds ratios 9.6, 5.2 respective 6.1 at one year, five years respective ten years after SPR. Corresponding hazard ratios 8.9, 4.9 respective 5.5. Patients belonging to ASA class 3 are more likely to undergo re-revision than ASA 1 patients; odds ratios 10.7 respective 6.2 at one year respective five years after SPR. Corresponding hazard ratios being 9.3 respective 5.6. No such effect could be found at ten years after SPR. Surgical duration was found to significantly impact the risk of re-revision, but this result might have been affected by outliers. Comparison of Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome scale (KOOS) and self-assessed pain according to Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before and one year after SPR indicates that, in general, patients undergoing SPR are benefited by the procedure. Self-assessed satisfaction (VAS) is in average 4.6. Conclusion: Femuropatellar osteoarthritis is the main reason for performing SPR. The prosthesis survival of SPR is not great, patients having a high risk of re-revision. predictors as to which SPR patients undergo re-revision; sex and ASA class. SPR seems to benefit the patients in general but the spread is large, making the outcome unpredictable. The patients are in general neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the SPR. There seems to be merit to the policy of only performing primary patella resurfacing in special cases, although the high risk of complications for SPR indicates that it would be desirable to be able to predict which case patella resurfacing can be performed primarily in these cases.
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