ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2016
Patient-reported allergies cause inferior outcomes after total knee arthroplasty.
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- Effect of patient-reported allergies on reverse total shoulder arthroplasty outcomes at over two years follow-up.Journal of orthopaedics · 2024Article
- Patient-Reported Allergies Do Not Affect Long-Term Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Spine Surgery.International journal of spine surgery · 2023Article
- Increasing patient-reported allergies are not associated with pain, functional outcomes, or satisfaction following medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction: a retrospective comparative cohort study.Knee surgery & related research · 2022Article
- Impact of Patient-Reported Allergies on Early Postoperative Opioid Use and Outcomes Following Ambulatory Hand Surgery.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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- Predictive Models for Clinical Outcomes in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Analysis.Arthroplasty today · 2021Article
- Self-reported allergies correlate with a worse patient-reported outcome after hip arthroscopy: a matched control study.Journal of hip preservation surgery · 2020Article
- Is Patient-reported Penicillin Allergy Independently Associated with Increased Risk of Prosthetic Joint Infection After Total Joint Arthroplasty of the Hip, Knee, and Shoulder?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2020Article
- Anxiety is the cause of the worse outcomes of allergic patients after total knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2020Article
- Patient-Reported Allergies, a Marker of Preoperative Pain and Disability in Elective Spine Surgery.Global spine journal · 2020Article
- Delayed hospital discharge after total shoulder arthroplasty: why, and who is at risk?JSES open access · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThe main objective of this study was to analyse the outcomes after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) of a group of patients with at least one self-reported allergy and a group of patients without reported allergies. We hypothesized there is a significant negative influence on clinical outcome scores after TKA in patients with self-reported allergies.
methodsFour-hundred and seventy-five patients who had undergone TKA were analysed preoperatively and 1 year after surgery. The WOMAC, KSS and SF-36 scores were obtained. The patients' Yesavage depression questionnaire score was also recorded. The scores of the 330 (69.5 %) patients without self-reported allergies were compared to the scores of the 145 (30.5 %) patients with at least one self-reported allergy in the medical record.
resultsPreoperative scores were similar in both groups. The WOMAC post-operative scores (23.6 vs 20.4; p = 0.037) and the KSS-Knee score (91.1 vs 87.6; p = 0.027) were worse in the group of patients with self-reported allergies than in the group without allergies. The scores from the Yesavage depression questionnaire and in the SF-36 were similar in both groups.
conclusionPatients with at least one self-reported allergy have worse post-operative outcomes in terms of the WOMAC and KSS-Knee scores after TKA than patients without allergies. These poor outcomes do not seem to be related to depression. Therefore, more research is needed to explain them. Reported allergies could be considered a prognostic factor and used when counselling TKA patients. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: I.
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