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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1973;55:301-314.
© 1973 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

Surgery of the Hip and Knee in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

J. PIERCE CONATY M.D.1

1 From the Arthritis Service (Surgery) of Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Downey

In ten years, at one hospital, 151 patients had 274 surgical procedures in an effort at rehabilitation for ambulation. Follow-up was a minimum of one year. Each operation was evaluated separately. Hip operations numbered eighty-four and knee operations 190, and ninety-six patients had significant complications, most of which compromised the success of the operation. Recrudescence of disease occurred in 21 per cent of patients who had synovectomy, débridement, or osteotomy. Technical failures, failures because of poor patient selection, and so on, also obtained so that the total number of failures was ninety-four, reduced to fifty-five by additional surgery.


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