Safety and outcome of simultaneous bilateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A systematic review. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Purpose: Simultaneous bilateral unicompartmentsl knee arthroplasty (BUKA) is considered safe and effective. We performed a systematic review to assess the postoperative outcomes. Methods: The US National Library of Medicine (PubMed/MEDLINE), Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were queried for publications. Results: Ten articles were included with 765 simultaneous BUKA. Overall complication rate was 7.0%, survivorship was 97.6% at mean 17 months follow-up. No differences were reported between simultaneous and staged BUKA. Conclusion: Simultaneous BUKA is as safe as staged BUKA, it is associated with decreased length of stay and operative time, although it has an increased rate of blood transfusion.

publication date

  • February 19, 2021

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7907672

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85101064691

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jor.2021.02.019

PubMed ID

  • 33679029

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24