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The outcome of total knee arthroplasty in obese patients.
J Bone Joint Surg Am
August 2004
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Good Samaritan Hospital, Arthritis Division of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5601 Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21115, USA.
Background: Evidence linking increased body weight to osteoarthritis of the knee and the high prevalence of obesity underscore the importance of defining the outcome of total knee arthroplasty in obese patients. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiographic results of total knee arthroplasties performed in obese patients with those of total knee arthroplasties performed in nonobese patients.
Methods: Clinical and radiographic data on seventy-eight total knee arthroplasties in sixty-eight obese patients were compared with data on a matched group of nonobese patients.