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Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Low-Income Country: Short-Term Outcomes from a National Joint Registry.
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- Total joint replacement in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Tropical doctor · 2019Pooled it
- Long term biopsychosocial outcomes and their associations after total knee arthroplasty in individuals with knee osteoarthritis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Draft of a national arthroplasty registry prototype in Burkina Faso, West Africa.International orthopaedics · 2025Article
- 2050: An Arthroplasty Odyssey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Dual mobility total hip replacement: a 15-year experience in Burkina Faso.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- Total joint arthroplasty in the public hospitals of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: our experience.Arthroplasty today · 2019Article
- Orthopaedic research in low-income countries: A bibliometric analysis of the current literature.SICOT-J · 2019Article
- Total Joint Arthroplasty in HIV-Positive Patients in Malawi: Outcomes from the National Arthroplasty Registry of the Malawi Orthopaedic Association.JB & JS open accessArticle
- Total Hip Arthroplasty in a Low-Income Country: Ten-Year Outcomes from the National Joint Registry of the Malawi Orthopaedic Association.JB & JS open accessArticle
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Abstract
backgroundWe describe our 10-year experience with total knee arthroplasty in patients who are included in the Malawi National Joint Registry.
methodsA total of 127 patients underwent 153 total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) between 2005 and 2015. The mean duration of follow-up was 4 years and 3 months (range, 6 months to 10 years and 6 months). The study group included 98 women and 29 men with a mean age of 65.3 years (range, 24 to 84 years). Nine patients were human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive.
resultsThe primary indication for surgery was osteoarthritis (150 knees), and the mean preoperative and postoperative Oxford Knee Scores were 16.81 (range, 4 to 36) and 45.61 (range, 29 to 48), respectively. Four knees (2.6%) were revised because of early periprosthetic joint infection (1 knee), aseptic loosening (1 knee), and late periprosthetic joint infection (2 knees). There were no perioperative deaths. In the group of 9 patients who were HIV-positive, there were no early or late complications and the mean Oxford Knee Score was 47 (range, 42 to 48) at the time of the latest follow-up.
conclusionsThis study demonstrated good short-term results following 153 primary TKAs performed in a low-income country. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
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