Surgical interventions for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a network meta-analysis of randomized control trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multiple surgical interventions exist for the treatment of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, but the surgeon and patient may often have difficulty deciding which interventions are the best option.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review to identify randomized clinical trials (RCTs) that compared complications, revisions, reoperations, and functional outcomes among TKA (total knee arthroplasty), UKA (unicompartmental knee arthroplasty), HTO (high tibial osteotomy), BCA (bicompartmental knee arthroplasty), BIU (bi-unicompartmental knee arthroplasty), and KJD (knee joint distraction). The PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases were reviewed for all studies comparing two or more surgical interventions. Direct-comparison meta-analysis and network meta-analysis (NMA) we

SUBMITTER: Bin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10122318 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature