5. Early Outcome of Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Tricompartmental Osteoarthritis of Knee Joint

Hemant H. Mathur, Priyank R. Pancholi, Gaurang M. Patel

ABSTRACT

Background: Total knee arthroplasty has been one of the most successful operations of present era not only in terms of gratifying results, but also in terms of the patient’s satisfaction, range of movements and functions. Today, it is the most common knee reconstruction procedure performed. Materials & Methods: This study is a prospective and observational study, which was conducted in the department of Orthopedics SSG Hospital & Medical College, Baroda, Gujarat to analyze the early outcome of total knee arthroplasty in the patients with tricompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee joint. All the patients were evaluated clinically, functionally and radiologicaly according to the ‘Knee Society Score’ (KSS) before doing surgery and at the 6 months postoperative period. Results: The patients operated in our study had average 92.24 clinical score and 91.06 functional score at last follow up. The radiological examination at final follow up revealed overall valgus angle of 4.24 degrees, mean femoral angle was 94.84 degrees and mean tibial angle was 89.4 degrees. In lateral view mean femoral angle was 6.08 degrees and the mean tibial angle was 89.06 degrees. Conclusion: The present study shows that the results of total knee arthroplasty are good and satisfactory and provides good functional early outcomes to the patients in attaining the standard life.

Key-words: Total Knee Arthroplasty, Knee Society Score, Osteoarthritis, Knee surgery.

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