Abstract
The clinical results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with an AXIOM system were examined in patients who remained under observation. The mean observation period was five years and one month. In our department, 94 joints in 59 patients constituted the subjects of the present study. There were 48 females and 11 males; average age at the time of operation was 64.3 years. As classified by disease, 43 joints in 27 patients were rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and 51 joints in 32 patients were osteoarthritis (OA) . The follow-up period ranged from three years and six months to six years and three months (mean five years and one month) . Our study focused on the pre- and post-operative JOA score, radiographic examinations, complications and related problems. At the time of examination, the post-operative JOA score was satisfactory and remained stable. No loosening or malalignment was detected on X-ray films after operation; no case required revision arthroplasty. As for complications, late infection occurred in one patient, patella dislocation in one, and patella subluxation in four. TKA with an AXIOM system was thus found to have yielded satisfactorily stable results.
