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Trial reportEuropean journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie2017

No difference in joint awareness after mobile- and fixed-bearing total knee arthroplasty: 3-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.

M G M Schotanus, P Pilot, R Vos, N P Kort

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Trial report in European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie, 2017. 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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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. No difference between mobile and fixed bearing in primary total knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022
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  2. PCL retained is safe in medial pivot TKA-a prospective randomized trial.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023
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M G M SchotanusDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Centre, Location Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands. martijnschotanus@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-6337
P PilotDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Reinier de Graaf Hospital, Delft, The Netherlands.
R VosDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
N P KortDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Centre, Location Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo compare the patients ability to forget the artificial knee joint in everyday life who were randomized to be operated for mobile- or fixed-bearing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

methodsThis single-center randomized controlled trial evaluated the 3-year follow-up of the cemented mobile- and fixed-bearing TKA from the same brand in a series of 41 patients. Clinical examination was during the pre-, 6-week, 6-month, 1-, 2- and 3-year follow-up containing multiple patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) including the 12-item Forgotten Joint Score (FJS-12) at 3 years. Effect size was calculated for each PROM at 3-year follow-up to quantify the size of the difference between both bearings.

resultsAt 3-year follow-up, general linear mixed model analysis showed that there were no significant or clinically relevant differences between the two groups for all outcome measures. Calculated effect sizes were small (<0.3) for all the PROMs except for the FJS-12; these were moderate (0.5).

conclusionThe results of this study demonstrate that joint awareness was slightly lower in patients operated with the MB TKA with comparable improved clinical outcome and PROMs at 3-year follow-up. Measuring joint awareness with the FJS-12 is useful and provides more stringent information at 3-year follow-up compared to other PROMs and should be the PROM of choice at each follow-up after TKA. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, randomized controlled trial.

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AwarenessAgedArthroplasty, Replacement, KneeFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansKnee JointKnee ProsthesisMaleMiddle AgedPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresPostoperative PeriodProsthesis DesignEffect sizeFixed-bearingForgotten Joint ScoreJoint awarenessMobile-bearingPROMsRandomized controlled trialTotal knee arthroplasty

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