Incontinence Is an Independent Risk Factor for Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urinary incontinence has been linked to worse postoperative pain, decreased physical function, and reduced quality of life in patients following total joint arthroplasty. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether incontinence is associated with increased postoperative medical and joint complications following primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted using a national insurance database. Thirty-two thousand eight hundred eleven patients with incontinence who underwent primary THA were identified and matched 1:4 with 129,073 patients without incontinence. Ninety-one thousand nine hundred thirty-five patients with incontinence who underwent primary TKA were matched 1:4 with 367,28

SUBMITTER: Budin JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951425 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature