Effect of smoking and soft tissue release on risk of revision after total knee arthroplasty: a case- control study.
Madanat R, Laaksonen I, Graves SE, Lorimer M, Muratoglu O, Malchau H. Ceramic bearings for total hip arthroplasty are associated with a reduced risk of revision for infection.
Katz JN, Wright EA, Wright J, Malchau H, Mahomed NN, Stedman M, Baron JA, Losina E. Twelve-year risk of revision after primary total hip replacement in the U.S. Medicare population.
There is an association between early implant micromotion and increased risk of revision.
"It is, of course, heartening and very encouraging that hip and knee implants are lasting ten years or more, with risk of revision lower than 5%.
Lewold et al. [21] reported risk of revision following Oxford UKR was 2.1 % and mean time of revision was 26 months (range 6 74 months).
After multivariable adjustment, the risk of revision remained 2.4 times higher for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty than for total knee arthroplasty (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.03 to 2.83).
We transformed these to Kaplan-Meier ten-year estimates by assuming a constant annual risk of revision.
However, the risk of revision of THAs after DDH is higher than the risk of revision of THAs after OA.
The risk of revision of primary UKA decreased with age.
