title: Effect of posterior cruciate sacrificing on durability of the cement-bone interface: a nine-year survivorship study of 100 total condylar knee arthroplasties.
abstract: This paper presents a survivorship analysis of the second group of 100 consecutive primary total-condylar knee arthroplasties carried out in 75 patients between 1979-80 with a maximum follow-up of 9 years. With this type of knee arthroplasty the posterior cruciate ligament is routinely sacrificed. Survivorship results revealed that 98.9% of the knees had a good outcome at 9 years of follow-up, using revision surgery for aseptic and septic loosening, and radiographic evidence of global radiolucency or shift of the component as the end point. Radiographic survivorship analysis showed well-fixed components in 87% of implants using endpoint criteria of appearance and progression of radiolucency under the tibial component. Sacrificing the posterior cruciate ligament does not adversely affect the durability of fixation of total-condylar knee arthroplasty. Bone cement provides an excellent fixation of the total knee implant.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University Medical Center, New York, Hospital, New York 10021.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Ranawat
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Hansraj
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001843:Bone Cements; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007720:Knee Prosthesis / Q000379:methods*; D008022:Ligaments / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011475:Prosthesis Failure
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements