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Despite similar 90-day mortality rates with same-day discharge after total knee arthroplasty, risks of diagnosed medical complications were greater for octogenarians vs. non-octogenarians, results of a matched cohort database study showed.

Up to 10 years postoperatively, patients who undergo unicompartmental knee arthroplasty have lower average related health care costs than patients who undergo total knee arthroplasty, according to presented results.

Despite receiving equivalent CMS reimbursement for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty performed outpatient, hospitals have increased facility costs for outpatient total knee arthroplasty, according to presented data.

General anesthesia used in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty in the community hospital setting was associated with complications that deterred same-day discharge or failure to launch, results of retrospective study showed.

The American Joint Replacement Registry released its 2020 Annual Report, which includes findings from 1,897,050 hip and knee arthroplasty procedures performed between 2012 and 2019.

Patients 55 years of age or younger who underwent total knee arthroplasty had a nearly two times greater rate of early reoperation and component revision surgery compared with patients between 60 and 75 years of age, according to results.

A congress is as good as its scientific program. Therefore, each EFORT Annual Congress, even a virtual one, relies on the high-quality content from orthopaedic and traumatology physicians and researchers from Europe and worldwide.

Preoperative knee-specific and generic patient-reported outcome measures were not affected by the presence of patellofemoral osteoarthritis among patients with medial or lateral OA, according to results from the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Interleukin-6 and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio may be used as preoperative risk stratifying tools among patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis, according to results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Despite issues with mobile-bearing lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty implants, researchers found similar midterm to long-term survivorship of both lateral and medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty performed from 2007 to 2017.