High pre- and postoperative symptom burden in non-responders to total knee arthroplasty.

Maren Falch LindbergTurid Undebakke SchweitzArild AamodtCaryl GayAnners Lerdal

Published in: PloS one (2020)

Patients' preoperative symptom burden may be a useful indicator of their risk for non-improvement following TKA surgery. Future studies need to evaluate the effect of reducing patients' preoperative symptom burden on TKA outcomes.

Keyphrases

total knee arthroplasty
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
patients undergoing
prognostic factors
patient reported
minimally invasive
risk factors
total hip
metabolic syndrome
patient reported outcomes
coronary artery disease
insulin resistance