A Comparison of Patient Outcomes Following Prosthetic Knee Replacement Using a Variety of Knee Prosthesis: A Ten-Year Study

Bassel El-Osta^1*, Ali Ghoz², Alice Dawson¹, Mark Andrews²

¹St. George’s Hospital, London, UK.
²Scarborough General Hospital, Scarborough, UK.

DOI: 10.4236/ojo.2014.49041                

Abstract

There are several prosthetic knee designs currently in use. There are however very few studies comparing long-term functional outcomes between patients using different models of knee pros-thesis in elective knee replacement. In this study, we used the validated Oxford Knee Score (OKS) to retrospectively compare the outcomes of a total of 1635 patients who had an elective total knee replacement in a large District General Hospital, using fifteen different models of knee prosthesis, over a ten-year period. The average scores reported by all patient groups showed significant improvement by three months post-operatively (pre-operative mean score 15.8, post-operative mean score 39.4, p < 0.05), and remained similar for all models of prosthesis used over the total ten-year period. Based on the OKS as an assessment tool, we report no significant difference in long-term functional outcomes for this group of patients following an elective knee replacement, regardless of the type of prosthesis used.

Keywords

Patients Outcome, Knee Prosthesis, Total Knee Replacement, Variable Knee Prosthesis, OKS on Prosthesis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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