knee replacement

Knee replacement

Knee replacement - design of the implants (prostheses)

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.

What are the chances of dying during a knee replacement?

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:

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