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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Knee arthroplasty with hardware removal: complication cascade. Is it preventable?

Gabriel Nierenberg, Alaa Abu Elasal, Eran Keltz, Doron Norman

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gabriel NierenbergOrthopedic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel Drgabiknee@technion.ac.il.
Alaa Abu ElasalTechnion Israel Institute of Technology Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
Eran KeltzOrthopedic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Doron NormanOrthopedic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Rambam Health Care Campus · ILTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An elderly woman underwent hardware removal and total joint replacement (TJR) of her right knee. Ipsilateral total tip replacement was performed 7 years earlier, and 12 months later, a supracondylar fracture of the index femur was successfully treated by open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of the distal femur with a locking compression plate condylar plate. Hardware removal attempt, prior to the arthroplasty, resulted in fracture of the distal femur. Total knee replacement (TKR) was commenced with temporary reduction and final stabilisation of the femur fracture with a condylar plate. Postoperatively, non-union of the femur fracture developed twice with fatigue failure of the plate fixation device in both instances. Refixation of the femur was performed on both occasions and additional bone healing augmentation measures were performed for each subsequent surgery. Femur union was achieved fourteen months after the last surgery.

Indexed as

Arthroplasty, Replacement, KneeFemoral FracturesFracture Fixation, InternalPostoperative ComplicationsAged, 80 and overBone PlatesDevice RemovalFemaleHumansKnee ProsthesisOsteoarthritis, Kneeorthopaedic and trauma surgeryosteoarthritic knww

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PMID32843420
PMCPMC7449488
OpenAlexW3081182105

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