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knee replacement
Knee replacement - design of the implants (prostheses)
Submitted by admin on May 15, 2008 - 9:21am.I would like to draw attention to this excellent article on knee replacements. This should answer most questions about the design of the prostheses and what each kind of prosthesis is trying to achieve.
Knee replacement in the younger patient - a patient's perspective
Submitted by admin on March 22, 2008 - 12:48pm.What are the chances of dying during a knee replacement?
Submitted by admin on June 22, 2007 - 9:28am.Are you contemplating a knee replacement and want to know the raw facts? Like "what are the chances of actually dying from this procedure?".
A medical paper published in August 2001 (ref 1) examines this question in more than 22,000 consecutive knee replacement patients from the same organisation and the results suggest that:
