1. Lifeline multi-specialty hospital
Perungudi, Rajiv Gandhi road
Tamilnadu, India
T.+91 9176640002 (personal mobile)
27, 1st avenue, Besant nagar
Chennai 600090, India
Mobile: +91 9176640002 & +91 9282165002
Bilateral knee replacements
Rheumatoid arthritis and Osteoarthritis commmonly involve both the knees to a similar degree in the same person. Many such patients want a double knee replacment to revert back to normalcy as they can avoid another admission for the second knee replacement surgery at a later date.
A safe procedure?
Many studies have vouched for the decreased morbidity afer simultaneous replacement. Bilateral knee replacments are safe in young patients without cardiac problems. In older patients the risks may be higher. Here it is better to doa sequential TKR (replace one knee first and then replace the other after a gap of one to two months. This involves two periods of hospital stay.
Safe anesthesia
Anesthesia is safely given by epidural catheters and post opertive pain relief is continued for 24- 48 hrs.
Costs
The total cost will be less as there is only one hospitalisation.The patient can go home by the 10th day in case of bilateral knee replacments.The cost is less.
Recovery period
This is shorter after double knee replacement surgery as the intervening period between sequential knee replacements is avoided.
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