Surgical intervention at the hip joints was less common than at the knee joints, but the prognosis for hip joints seems to be more guarded, especially in COMP-MED patients.
The character of the exploratory operation through the joint rendered the prognosis very unfavorable.
These findings have a potential impact on therapeutic decisions, [ 7, 8] because such findings were shown to provides a high predictive value for radiographic joint destruction and prognosis.
A range of factors affect its pathogenesis, presentation, and prognosis: joint morphology and anatomy, the specific type of tissue affected, the presence of co-morbidities, and the clinical presentation (Table 2).
However, a joint model with both prognosis scores has no appreciable improvement in discrimination, compared with the SAPS 3 model.
There is growing evidence that therapeutic intervention early in the course of RA leads to more efficient disease control, less joint damage, and better prognosis of disease outcome.
The keywords used were: knee, osteoarthritis (or arthritis, or arthrosis, or degenerative joint disease), progression (or prognosis, or precipitate, or predictive), clinical (or symptomatic) and case control (or cohort, or longitudinal, or follow-up).
Key words were: knee, osteoarthritis (or arthritis, or arthrosis, or degenerative joint disease), progression (or prognosis, or precipitate, or predictive), and case-control (or cohort, or longitudinal, or follow-up).
Although MATN3-MED and COMP-MED are currently categorized under the same clinical diagnosis of MED, the long term prognosis of the joints, especially hip joint, should be different.
They added that moderate comminution of the joint depression fractures worsened the prognosis, and extensively comminuted fractures were associated with the worst prognosis.
