As the group not satisfying the age criterion had significantly better preoperative function scores, adjustment of their confounding effects was performed using the multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA).
Further, a prospective study of patients waiting for total hip arthroplasty (THA) found that patients in a later phase of disease did not reach the same level after THA as those with better preoperative function [ 4].
They found that preoperative function and gender (with men having better results than women) were predictive of functional recovery.
All of the previous three reports demonstrated that NBNC patients had much better preoperative liver function (platelet count and ICG R15), and Kudo et al. [ 30] reported that the incidence of liver cirrhosis was significantly lower in NBNC patient (34%) than in HBV (52%) and HCV (56%) patients, which were similar to our results.
It is also well known within the literature that patients with better preoperative pain and function achieve better attained postoperative pain and function and that patients with worse preoperative pain and function get the greatest change (symptomatic improvement) between baseline and follow-up.
In this study we examined preoperative characteristics and their relationship to neuropsychological preoperative functioning and postoperative change.
The patients not satisfying the symptomatic criterion (i.e., patients with relatively better preoperative WOMAC functions scores) had better postoperative WOMAC pain and function scores than the typical candidates (Table 3).
We also demonstrated that good memory performance is sustained by activation within the pathological MTL, explaining why patients with better preoperative memory functioning are most at risk of postoperative memory impairment.
Patients with a better preoperative self-reported mental functioning, and patients who experienced less pain and had fulfilled expectations regarding postoperative pain, were more often satisfied.
Patients with a better preoperative self-reported mental functioning, and patients who experienced less pain and had fulfilled expectations regarding pain postoperatively, were more often satisfied.
