title: [Total knee arthroplasty for rheumatoid arthritis].
abstract: A total of 150,000 primary total knee arthroplasties are performed in Germany each year. There is only a limited amount of evidence-based data available on possible surgery-related differences between osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of the knee joint. The following review summarizes the recent literature on total knee arthroplasty with a focus on special features of RA patients.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Orthopädische Rheumatologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien, Erlangen. Hans-Dieter.Carl@ortho-rheuma.med.uni-erlangen.de
authors.forename: H-D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Carl
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gelse
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Swoboda
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007720:Knee Prosthesis