Ten-year Results of an Inset Biconvex Patella Prosthesis in Primary Knee Arthroplasty
- 4 April 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
- Vol. 467 (7), 1781-1792
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-009-0816-8
Abstract
The inset biconvex patella component is an alternative form of patella resurfacing in knee arthroplasty. We retrospectively reviewed 433 patients in whom 521 patella prostheses were implanted before April 1997 to determine survivorship, factors associated with failure of the implant, incidence of anterior knee pain, and factors that may be associated with the latter. We had clinical results for 204 surviving patients (242 knees) without failure of their implants with a minimum 10-year followup (mean, 11.4 years; range, 10–17 years). For the remaining 229 patients we used chart or radiographic review to determine if failure of their implant or other complications had occurred. At latest followup, 14 patella components had been revised for aseptic reasons or were radiographically loose. The 10-year Kaplan-Meier survivorship for the entire cohort for aseptic failure was 97.0%. Aseptic failure of the patella component was associated with the presence of osteonecrosis and the absence of a superior rim of bone radiographically. The incidence of anterior knee pain in surviving patients without failure of their implants was 7.8%. No factor examined was associated with anterior knee pain. Survivorship and clinical and radiographic results are equivalent, but not clearly superior, to those reported for other forms of patella resurfacing. Level of Evidence: Level IV, therapeutic study. See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.Keywords
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