TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of obesity on total knee arthroplasty outcomes
T2 - A retrospective matched cohort study
AU - Aggarwal, Vikram A.
AU - Sambandam, Senthil N.
AU - Wukich, Dane K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Delhi Orthopedic Association
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Background: Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is a common orthopaedic surgery to treat advanced knee arthritis. Post-operative complications can be affected by obesity, defined as a body mass index of 30 kg/m2 or higher. We examine the rates of specific complications, revision rates, and costs of care following TKA and compare them between multifactor matched obese and non-obese patients. We hypothesize these outcomes will be worse in obese patients than in non-obese patients. Methods: This retrospective study of the PearlDiver database queries for patients who underwent TKA under Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) codes between January 2011 and January 2020. Patients were matched based on age, gender, and comorbidity indices, and various complications, revision rates, and costs were compared between the matched obese and non-obese patient groups. Results: Obesity was associated with higher rates of surgical complications, such as wound complications, surgical site infections, need for revision, and higher total cost of care one year after TKA, and medical complications such as, acute kidney injury, deep vein thrombosis, urinary tract infection, and narcotics use, but significantly lower rates of anemia, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, pneumonia, and transfusion. Obese patients also experienced significantly lower drug costs of care. Conclusion: Outcomes were not definitively worse in obese patients when compared to matched non-obese patients. Nevertheless, understanding the complications that can arise following TKA will assist in educating patients about potential risks from surgery and guide surgeons in caring for their patients as obesity is predicted to continue increasing in prevalence. As such, future studies should examine underlying mechanisms that cause these complications to develop potential therapies.
AB - Background: Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is a common orthopaedic surgery to treat advanced knee arthritis. Post-operative complications can be affected by obesity, defined as a body mass index of 30 kg/m2 or higher. We examine the rates of specific complications, revision rates, and costs of care following TKA and compare them between multifactor matched obese and non-obese patients. We hypothesize these outcomes will be worse in obese patients than in non-obese patients. Methods: This retrospective study of the PearlDiver database queries for patients who underwent TKA under Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) codes between January 2011 and January 2020. Patients were matched based on age, gender, and comorbidity indices, and various complications, revision rates, and costs were compared between the matched obese and non-obese patient groups. Results: Obesity was associated with higher rates of surgical complications, such as wound complications, surgical site infections, need for revision, and higher total cost of care one year after TKA, and medical complications such as, acute kidney injury, deep vein thrombosis, urinary tract infection, and narcotics use, but significantly lower rates of anemia, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, pneumonia, and transfusion. Obese patients also experienced significantly lower drug costs of care. Conclusion: Outcomes were not definitively worse in obese patients when compared to matched non-obese patients. Nevertheless, understanding the complications that can arise following TKA will assist in educating patients about potential risks from surgery and guide surgeons in caring for their patients as obesity is predicted to continue increasing in prevalence. As such, future studies should examine underlying mechanisms that cause these complications to develop potential therapies.
KW - Comparison
KW - Complications
KW - Obesity
KW - Retrospective database
KW - Total knee arthroplasty
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcot.2022.101987
DO - 10.1016/j.jcot.2022.101987
M3 - Article
C2 - 36089991
AN - SCOPUS:85136557086
SN - 0976-5662
VL - 33
JO - Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma
JF - Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma
M1 - 101987
ER -