A Mayo Clinic team decided to take a new look at reoperation, revision, and infection risk rates for high body mass index (BMI) patients. In total, the team pulled data from 13,919 total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients who were treated between 1990 and 2019.
Their work, “Outcomes of Obese Patients Undergoing Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: Trends Over 30 Years, November 6, 2024, edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American).
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