Measuring Outcomes: Pain and Quality of Life 48 Months After Acute Postoperative Total Knee Prosthetic Joint Infection
| Autor: | Santiago Suso, Esther Núñez Juarez, Félix Vilchez Cavazos, Alex Soriano Viladomiu, Francisco Maculé Beneyto, Montserrat Núñez, J.C. Martínez-Pastor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Staphylococcus aureus WOMAC Prosthesis-Related Infections Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Total knee Cohort Studies Quality of life Internal medicine medicine Postoperative infection Humans In patient Prospective Studies Arthroplasty Replacement Knee Aged Pain Measurement Aged 80 and over Pain Postoperative business.industry Prosthetic joint infection Middle Aged Osteoarthritis Knee Staphylococcal Infections Arthroplasty Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Bodily pain Treatment Outcome Physical therapy Quality of Life Female business |
| Zdroj: | Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain. 15(7) |
| ISSN: | 1533-2500 |
| Popis: | Background Measuring HRQOL is simple, inexpensive, permits the health status to be measured over time, and is useful to compare or initiate treatments and evaluate results, facilitating homogenization in patient inclusion. Objectives To evaluate disease-specific and generic HRQOL and influence of associated factors in patients undergoing open debridement for acute postsurgical knee prosthetic joint infection after TKR at 12 and 48 months after completing antibiotic treatment and considered cured of infection. Methods Health-related quality-of-life measures were administered at baseline (WOMAC) and 12 and 48 months (WOMAC and SF-36) in patients with prosthesis retention, no symptoms of infection, and CRP (≤ 1 mg/dL). Results Thirty patients were included, and 24 were evaluated at 48 months. WOMAC scores improved significantly (P |
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