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KNEE SURGERY SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY ARTHROSCOPY
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 1418-1432Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1631-9
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Total knee arthroplasty; Pain; Instability; Loosening; Patellofemoral; Complication
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The review provides an overview of the causes of failure and the many different aetiologies of a painful primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). They can be classified into extra- and intraarticular disorders, the latter being divided into biological and mechanical origins. Whereas biological aetiologies like infections have remained stable over time, other causes of failure have changed. In the early times of knee arthroplasty, they were mainly related to technical insufficiencies. A better understanding of knee arthroplasty, patients' increasing functional demands as well as a continuous development of TKA techniques generated newer problems, which are increasingly related to the functioning of the soft-tissue envelope of the knee. From a therapeutic point of view, three situations can be considered: functional problems not needing reoperations, causes of reoperations not needing an exchange of prosthetic components as well as reoperations with exchange of at least one prosthetic component. Level of evidence IV.
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