Allergy in Total Knee Replacement. Does It Exist?: Review Article.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little data on whether preexisting allergies to implant materials and bone cement have an impact on the outcome of TKA.

Questions/purposes

This review article analyzes the current literature to evaluate the prevalence and importance of metal and cement allergies for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.

Methods

A review of the literature was performed using the following search criteria: "knee," "arthroplasty," and "allergy" as well as "knee," "arthroplasty," and "hypersensitivity."

Results

One hundred sixteen articles were identified on PubMed, Seventy articles could be excluded by reviewing the title and abstract leaving 46 articles to be included for this review. The majority of the studies cited patch testing as the gold standard

SUBMITTER: Faschingbauer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264571 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature