A BMI above 30 results in satisfying outcomes in patients undergoing fixed-bearing lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
Lorenzo GiordanoNikolaos MalliaropoulosEmanuela MorenghiAlessandro QuagliaEmanuele ProsperoFrancesco RosaPiero VolpiPublished in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA (2022)
had satisfactory patient-reported outcome measures compared to non-obese patients on a long term with survival rates comparable to medial UKA. Obese patients should not be excluded from the benefit of lateral UKA surgery.
Keyphrases
- obese patients
- patient reported
- minimally invasive
- bariatric surgery
- patients undergoing
- gastric bypass
- roux en y gastric bypass
- total knee arthroplasty
- coronary artery bypass
- body mass index
- weight loss
- weight gain
- free survival
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- atrial fibrillation
- percutaneous coronary intervention