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Renal graft recipients wishing to undergo total knee arthroplasty have previously had little accumulated data to use to analyze the safety of the procedure. Researchers at the Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels sought to determine the safety and efficacy of total knee arthroplasty in transplant patients by retrospectively reviewing the cases of 16 total knee arthroplasties performed post-transplant on 12 renal graft recipients over the course of 6 years. The patients had a mean age of 63 years, and there was an average follow-up period of 65 months. There was no need for revision to any of the knees, but one patient died during the follow-up period. After evaluating the patients using the Knee Society Score and using radiological evaulations, researchers concluded that total knee arthroplasty is a safe and effective treatment of knee osteonecrosis and severe osteoarthritis in kidney transplant recipients, and suggest that the procedure be proposed to patients when their symptoms become significant.

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