Two year follow up in 30 cases of total knee replacement

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis that leads to pain, infirmity and deformity of the knee joint. This study was done with the aim to evaluate the efficacy of total knee replacement in relieving knee symptoms associated with osteoarthritis knee. This study was conducted on 30 patients suffering from osteoarthritis of knee, having pain (for some even at rest), contractures, varus deformity and decreased range of motion and had no relief with conservative modes of management. Patients were evaluated according to knee society score system after one month, three months, six months one year and two years from the day of operation. In our study all were having poor grade preoperatively according to knee scoring system and postoperatively there were 22 excellent, 5 good and 3 fair results with no poor result in our study. It can thus be concluded from our study that total knee replacement provides an unparalleled improvement in the disease symptomatology, deformity correction and life style in patients suffering from osteoarthritis.