Registry analysis shows outcomes of joint revisions for infection in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, suggesting effective management strategies.
Key Points
This study aims to identify the outcomes of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) revisions following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) using data from the New Zealand Joint Registry.
Extracted all UKA revisions from the New Zealand Joint Registry.
Identified demographic, clinical, and intra-operative data.
Analyzed revision reasons, time to revision, and outcomes.
A total of 77 UKA revisions for PJI were identified.
31 revisions involved conversion to TKA, while 42 were liner exchanges.
Liner exchange demonstrated 78.6% success rates for avoiding further revisions for PJI.