Wang HR, Li ZL, Li J, Wang YX, Zhao ZD, Li W. Arthroscopy combined with unicondylar knee arthroplasty for treatment of isolated unicompartmental knee arthritis: A long-term comparison. World J Clin Cases 2019; 7(24): 4196-4207 [PMID: 31911900 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i24.4196]
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Zhong-Li Li, PhD, Chief Physician, Professor, Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, No. 28, Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China. lizhongli@263.net
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Orthopedics
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Retrospective Study
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World J Clin Cases. Dec 26, 2019; 7(24): 4196-4207 Published online Dec 26, 2019. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i24.4196
Arthroscopy combined with unicondylar knee arthroplasty for treatment of isolated unicompartmental knee arthritis: A long-term comparison
Hao-Ran Wang, Zhong-Li Li, Ji Li, Yu-Xing Wang, Zhi-Dong Zhao, Wei Li
Hao-Ran Wang, Zhong-Li Li, Ji Li, Yu-Xing Wang, Zhi-Dong Zhao, Wei Li, Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 100853, China
Author contributions: Wang HR was responsible for the overall data collection and analysis of the article, and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript; Li ZL was responsible for the idea design and research direction of the article; Li J and Wang YX were responsible for the data collection and analysis; Zhao ZD and Li W were responsible for reading and measuring images; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The research content of this project has been reviewed and approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Medical Ethics Committee of Chinese PLA General Hospital. The application and the applicant to carry out our work were strictly in accordance with the relevant requirements of medical ethics.
Informed consent statement: All subjects in this study provided written informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Zhong-Li Li, PhD, Chief Physician, Professor, Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, No. 28, Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China. lizhongli@263.net
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Received: September 8, 2019 Peer-review started: September 8, 2019 First decision: November 11, 2019 Revised: November 24, 2019 Accepted: November 27, 2019 Article in press: November 27, 2019 Published online: December 26, 2019 Processing time: 108 Days and 8.5 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: The aim of this study was to compare the clinical effects of arthroscopy combined with unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA) and UKA alone for patients suffering from unicompartmental osteoarthritis during an average follow-up duration of 7.25 years. The hospital for special surgery score, knee society score, knee function score, femoral-tibial angle, and hip-knee-ankle angle increased significantly at the latest follow-up compared to pre-operation in both groups. The percentage of patients receiving blood transfusion (P = 0.003) and the total volume of blood transfusion (P = 0.001) were both significantly lower in the arthroscopy combined with UKA group than in the UKA alone group. Arthroscopic surgery has a unique advantage with regard to patient selection and a curative effect on cartilage degeneration in the lateral compartment.
