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ArticleSaudi medical journal2015

Comparison of outcomes after bilateral simultaneous total knee arthroplasty using posterior-substituting versus cruciate-retaining prostheses.

Hong-Guang Liu, Wei Zhu, Zhen-Xiang Zhang

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Article in Saudi medical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Posterior-stabilized versus cruciate-retained implants for total knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis of clinical trials.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2019
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  2. Article
  3. [Choice of total knee arthroplasty: posterior cruciate ligament preserved or not].Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2018
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  5. Intraoperative factors affecting conversion from cruciate retaining to cruciate substituting in total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hong-Guang LiuDepartment of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nantong University, Taizhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. E-mail. zzm20101113@gmail.com.
Wei Zhu
Zhen-Xiang Zhang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo compare the effectiveness and safety of posterior-substituting (PS) with cruciate-retaining (CR) total knee prostheses after the elimination of confounding variables.

methodsBetween January 2008 and June 2012, a total of 32 subjects who had bilateral arthritis of the knees agreed to have one knee replaced with a PS total knee design and the other with a CR design. In addition to postoperative complications, clinical outcomes (Knee Society Score, Range of Motion, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index, as well as radiographic findings) were evaluated preoperatively, and at 2-week, 3-month, 12-month, and 24-month follow-up.

resultsAt the 24-month follow-up interval, no benefit of CR design was observed over PS design regarding functional assessment, patient satisfaction, or postoperative complication. However, the PS total knee design did display statistically significant improvements in range of motion as compared with the CR design.

conclusionWhile comparable regarding supporting good clinical outcomes, the PS design does appear to support significantly improved postoperative range of motion when compared with the CR design.

Indexed as

Arthroplasty, Replacement, KneeJoint ProsthesisAnterior Cruciate LigamentHumansPosterior Cruciate Ligament

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PMID25719583
PMCPMC4375696

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