40-Year TKA Study: Implants Outlast Patients

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A yet-to-be published study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has found that active young adults who elect to have total knee replacement (TKA) are “unlikely” to require a revision…ever. This is the largest and longest follow-up of patients under 55 undergoing total knee replacement in existence.

Senior author William Long, M.D., a hip and knee surgeon at HSS, told OTW, “We looked at the 40-year outcomes of a cohort of 88 young patients who underwent total knee replacement for osteo and post-traumatic arthritis between 1977 and 1992.”