ArticleArthroplasty today2021
Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Is Associated With a Lower Rate of Periprosthetic Joint Infection Compared to Total Knee Arthroplasty.
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- Periprosthetic joint infection risk is comparable between unicompartmental knee arthroplasty to total knee arthroplasty conversion and primary total knee arthroplasty: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2026Pooled it
- Outcomes and short-term survivorship of fixed-bearing all-poly unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. A retrospective single-center study of 42 prostheses with a main follow-up of 32.3 months.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Unicompartmental vs. Total Knee Arthroplasty: Microbiological Spectrum and Management Outcomes.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Thromboembolic and infectious complication risks in TKA and UKA: evidence from a Japanese nationwide cohort.Knee surgery & related research · 2025Article
- Long-term outcome of periprosthetic joint infection following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A single-centre case series.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Are Current Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Fit for Purpose to Evaluate Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Versus Opening-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy for Spontaneous Osteonecrosis of the Knee: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- [Short- and mid-term effectiveness of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty for post-traumatic arthritis of knee].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSeveral studies have reported lower perioperative complications with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) than with total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, there is a paucity of data analyzing the incidence of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in similar patients undergoing UKA and TKA. As such, we sought to analyze the incidence of UKA and TKA PJI in a large matched population. MATERIAL AND
methodsThe Mariner data set of the PearlDiver database was queried for all patients undergoing UKA or TKA during 2010-2017. Included patients were required to have at least 2 years of database inclusion after surgery. Patients were then matched at a 1:3 ratio (UKA:TKA) on age, gender, Elixhauser Comorbidity Index, tobacco use, and obesity. Rates of PJI requiring operative intervention within 90 days and 1 year were calculated.
resultsIn total, 5636 patients having undergone UKA were matched to 16,890 patients having undergone TKA. Fifteen (0.27%) after UKA and 79 (0.47%) after TKA had a PJI surgically managed within 90 days (risk ratio = 0.57, 95% confidence interval = 0.33-0.99,
conclusionsIn a large group of rigorously matched patients, UKA was associated with a significantly lower rate of surgically managed PJI than TKA at 90 days and 1 year; however, the rate of PJI in both groups remained low at <1% at 90 days and 1 year.
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