Abstract
Since joint replacement was introduced as a surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), patients with severe RA who have become unable to walk or are bedridden have been able to increase their daily life activities through receiving an operation.
A study was made on 12 patients who received over three joint replacements for hip, knee and ankle joints. Another study on complications was done on 31 patients who had undergone two joint replacements or more. The results with multiple joint replacements were good in general, but there were a few cases in which operative purposes were not achieved because of complications.
We proposed a new functional criteria to evaluate multiple joint replacement for RA.
