Title: cementless unicompartmental knee arthroplasty results in higher pain levels compared to the cemented technique: a prospective register study.Authors: tone gifstad· jørgen jebens nordskar · tarjei egeberg · tina strømdal wik · siri bjørgen winther.Published 25 may 2021.On 06 sep 2021, a journal article was retrieved by our clinical team that reported a study from (b)(6) which compared patient-reported outcome measures (proms) from the cemented versus cementless techniques two- and twelve-months post-operation.The study retrospectively analysed 187 cemented and 261 cementless ukas from 2015 to 2019.The oxford unicompartmental knee system was used for all patients.The main finding from the present study was significantly lower scores for activity-related pain infavour of the cemented group at both two- and twelve-month follow-up.Also, pain at rest at twelvemonth follow-up and koosps at two-month follow-up were significantly lower in the cemented group.There was a significant reduction in duration of surgery for the cementless group, but a relatively high number of prosthetic joint infections were found in that same group.The study reports revision due to bearing dislocation in two patients.
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