Simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty in patients with haemophilia: a safe and cost-effective procedure?

Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi Babak HaghpanahM M EbrahiminasabT BaghdadiR HantooshzadehG Toogeh

Published in: Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia (2015)

Simultaneous bilateral TKA seems to be a safe and cost-effective approach without increasing the rate of complications in patients' bilateral haemophilic knee arthropathy. The procedure is, at least, as effective as staged unilateral knee arthroplasty in improving the patients' quality of life.

Keyphrases

total knee arthroplasty
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported