DOI: 10.21276/sasjs.2017.3.9.1

Pages: 233-238

The present study aimed to compare total knee prosthesis (TKA) and unicompartmental knee prosthesis (UKP) in terms of duration of hospital stay, duration of surgery, and postoperative pain and bleeding. Patients who underwent TKP (129 patients) or UKP (96 patients) between 2015 and 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Degree of pain was measured in all patients by Visual Analog Scale. Duration of surgery, duration of postoperative hospital stay and amount of blood transfusion postoperatively were retrieved from hospital records. The median duration of hospital stay was 3 days for the patients undergoing UKP and 5 days for the undergoing TKP. The median duration of surgery was 74 minutes for the patients undergoing UKP and 56 minutes for the patients undergoing TKP. The median VAS score at the postoperative 8th hour was 6 for the patients undergoing UKP and 7 for the patients undergoing TKP.