Elbow Arthroplasty in Patients with Bleeding Disorders. Preliminary Report of a Single-centre Experience.
Spontaneous or traumatic hemorrhages into joints that occur in the course of congenital bleeding disorders due to deficiencies of plasma clotting factors lead to early and extensive damage to joints. Arthropathy in those patients most commonly affects the knee, elbow and ankle. Replacement surgery of the damaged joint is the only effective way to treat such advanced changes. Although arthritis of the elbow is quite common, surgery is rarely undertaken; hence relevant reports in the literature are limited to individual or small groups of cases. The paper presents two patients with severe haemophilia A who underwent elbow arthroplasty at the Cracow Center of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics.
Department of Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Cracow Center of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, Cracow, Poland.
Andrzej
A
Leń
Department of Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Cracow Center of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, Cracow, Poland.
Jerzy Mirosław
JM
Jaworski
Clinical Division of Hematology, University Hospital in Cracow, Poland.
Joanna
J
Zdziarska
Clinical Division of Hematology, University Hospital in Cracow, Poland.
Bartłomiej
B
Skotnicki
Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Kraków University, Department of Health and Medical Sciences, Cracow, Poland.
Bogusław
B
Frańczuk
D000328:Adult; D019643:Arthroplasty, Replacement / Q000379:methods*; D004550:Elbow / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006395:Hemarthrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D016896:Treatment Outcome