Patients aged 59 years and younger who seek consultation for total knee arthroplasty report worse knee osteoarthritis symptoms, higher procedure readiness and similar willingness compared with older patients, published results showed.
Gillian A. Hawker, MD, MSc, and colleagues performed a cross-sectional study of 2,037 patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who were referred for TKA in Alberta, Canada, from 2014 to 2016. According to the study, 67 patients (3.3%) were aged 50 years and younger, 462 patients (22.7%) were between 50 and 59 years of age and 1,508 patients (74%) were aged 60 years