Abstract

DURAN C., Juan J  and  CRISPIN N, Deyssi. Total knee arthroplasty: Complications and functional evaluation. Traumatology and Orthopedics - Hospital Obrero N ° 1, 2010-2015. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2018, vol.59, n.2, pp.27-33. ISSN 1562-6776.

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Since the first full knee prosthetics was implanted in our city, it is noticed that most people attend surgery, not only when the pain becomes unbearable, but when deformity has also established itself or it increased considerably and the function looks diminished. OBJECTIVE: Determining the functional results and the complications of the total arthropiasty of knee at the service of Traumatología y Ortopedia of the Hospital Obrero N° 1 during the period 2010-2015. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Case series study. 121 patients of both sexes were studied, with diagnosis of gonarthrosis primary or secondary in the service of Traumatología y Ortopedia of the Hospital Obrero N° 1, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2015. The functional assessment was graded by means of the questionnaire WOMAC and the complications by means of clinical records. RESULTS: The most affected sex is the feminine (75,79 %), the most frequent age oscillates between 60 and 69 years (50,41 %), the most frequent preoperative comorbidity in the operated patients is rheumatoid arthritis (33,88 %), the functional post-operative results of the joint replacement are mainly good (75,21 %), the most frequent post-operative complication, was the infection in a 9,09 %, The amount of days of post-operative hospitalization average is 7,2 days. CONCLUSION: Good functional results were observed (WOMAC scale) and infection as the most frequent complication is the subject of our study.

Keywords : Arthropiasty; knee; functional assessment; complications.

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