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Size Does Matter: The Role of Patient’s Body Surface Predicting Surgical Difficulty in Total Knee Replacement

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  • Ignacio Moya
  • Eduardo Tornero

    (Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisés Broggi – Consorci Sanitat Integral. Carrer de Jacint Verdaguer, Spain)

  • Montserrat Tió
  • Andrés Combalia

    (Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. Carrer de Villarroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain)

  • Sergi Sastre

    (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

  • Luís Lozano

    (Institut d’ Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain)

Abstract

Total knee replacement (TKR) is a frequently performed surgery with reported very positive outcomes. However, the difficulty of TKR surgery can vary greatly between patients. Many factors have been related to higher surgical difficulty in TKR, but the role of patient anthropometry is still unclear. Although patient Body Mass Index (BMI) is known to affect the postoperative outcome after TKR, it has not proved to be a reliable predictor of surgical difficulty. The aim of this work was to state whether if the patient’s overall size, measured with the patient’s body surface, had a direct impact on surgical difficulty.

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  • Ignacio Moya & Eduardo Tornero & Montserrat Tió & Andrés Combalia & Sergi Sastre & Luís Lozano, 2019. "Size Does Matter: The Role of Patient’s Body Surface Predicting Surgical Difficulty in Total Knee Replacement," Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 14(3), pages 78-82, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:joroaj:v:14:y:2019:i:3:p:78-82
    DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2019.14.555890
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