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Medium-term Results Evaluation between Gender-Specific x Conventional Total Knee Arthroplasty Prostheses* * Study developed at Knee Group of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Discipline of the Hospital Estadual Mário Covas, Faculty of Medicine of ABC (FMABC), Santo André, SP, Brazil.

Abstract

Objective

To compare the postoperative functional result of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with gender-specific prosthesis versus TKA with conventional prosthesis in a 5-year period.

Methods

Retrospective study with functional evaluation of 30 patients (15 patients from each group) using scores (Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score [KOOS], Western Ontario and McMaster Universities arthritis index [WOMAC], and The Knee Society Clinical Rating System [KSS]) and range of motion (ROM) as methods of assessment.

Results

The differences found between the score values and ROM were not statistically significant.

Conclusion

The gender-specific prosthesis presents functional results equal to those of conventional prosthesis after 5 years postoperatively.

Keywords
knee arthroplasty; female; outcome assessment

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