Long-term survivorship and results in lower limb arthroplasty: a registry-based comparison study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Popularity of joint replacement surgery due to ever aging population surges the demand for a proper national joint registry. Our Chinese University of Hong Kong - Prince of Wales Hospital (CUHK-PWH) joint registry has passed the 30^th year. The aims of this study are 1) summarize our territory-wide joint registry which has passed the 30th year since establishment and 2) compare our statistics with other major joint registries.

Methods

Part 1 was to review the CUHK-PWH registry. Demographic characteristics of our patients who underwent knee and hip replacements had been summarized. Part 2 was a series of comparisons with registries from Sweden, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Results

CUHK-PWH registry captured 2889 primary total knee replacements

SUBMITTER: Ho KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10113734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature