Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty

Knee osteoarthritis is a common arthritic disease which mainly affects the elderly (≥65 years old) population. As a result of the cartilage degeneration, it can cause a significant amount of pain and functional limitation. In patients who are refractory to conservative management, total knee arthrop...

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Autores principales: Lim, Jiang An, Thahir, Azeem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33745384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920936940
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description Knee osteoarthritis is a common arthritic disease which mainly affects the elderly (≥65 years old) population. As a result of the cartilage degeneration, it can cause a significant amount of pain and functional limitation. In patients who are refractory to conservative management, total knee arthroplasty is being utilised as the last resort in management. In this review, we discuss the perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty.
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spelling pubmed-81679222021-06-09 Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty Lim, Jiang An Thahir, Azeem J Perioper Pract Review Knee osteoarthritis is a common arthritic disease which mainly affects the elderly (≥65 years old) population. As a result of the cartilage degeneration, it can cause a significant amount of pain and functional limitation. In patients who are refractory to conservative management, total knee arthroplasty is being utilised as the last resort in management. In this review, we discuss the perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty. SAGE Publications 2021-03-21 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8167922/ /pubmed/33745384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920936940 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty
title_fullStr Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty
title_short Perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty
title_sort perioperative management of elderly patients with osteoarthritis requiring total knee arthroplasty
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8167922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33745384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750458920936940
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