Specialised Commissioning Alert: Partial knee replacements have some short-term advantages compared to total knee replacements

14 May 2019

Partial knee replacements have some short-term advantages compared to total knee replacements

Partial knee replacements have some short-term advantages compared to total knee replacements
NIHR Signal 14 May 2019

Analysis of 60 studies published in the past 20 years, comparing outcomes of primary unicompartmental knee replacement (UKA) with Total Knee replacement ( TKA) in adult patients. By directly comparing the two treatments, this study demonstrates better results for UKA in several outcome domains. However, the risk of revision surgery was lower for TKA.