RESEARCH ARTICLE
Total Knee Arthroplasty In Patients With Parkinson's Disease- A Critical Analysis of Available Evidence
Munis Ashraf1, *, Sruthi Priyavadhana2, Senthil Nathan Sambandam1, Varatharaj Mounasamy3, Om Prakash Sharma4
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 1087
Last Page: 1093
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-11-1087
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001711011087
Article History:
Received Date: 20/04/2017Revision Received Date: 16/06/2017
Acceptance Date: 18/07/2017
Electronic publication date: 30/09/2017
Collection year: 2017`
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
In this era of modern medicine, there is an increase in life expectancy and thereby an ageing population. Among this group one of the most common neurological disorder is Parkinson disease and one of the most common operation done in elderly population is a total joint arthroplasty. But total joint arthroplasty in Parkinson disease is a relatively uncommon entity. There is sparse literature available with regards to total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in Parkinson disease. This review focusses on the necessity, complications and previous experiences on TKA in PD based on the literature available.
Method:
The review was conducted after a series of advanced search in the following medical databases; Pub med, Biomed central, Cochrane and Google scholar for articles related to total knee replacement in patients with Parkinson’s disease. The following keywords were used; Total knee arthroplasty, Parkinson’s disease, Hoehn and Yahr, Flexion Contracture.
Results:
The review indicates that the functional outcome is comparable to that of controls in immediate post-operative phase, one year and three-year phase, but the long term functional outcome seems to deteriorate significantly.
Conclusion:
Total knee arthroplasty can serve as an effective tool in alleviating pain in short term as well as long term periods, whereas the functional outcome seems to deteriorate post operatively on a long-term basis. Nevertheless, TKA in PD is a challenging situation, thereby necessitating a holistic approach with the efforts from various specialists needed at each stage to ensure a successful operation.
