Healio reports on a study led by William J. Long, MD, FRCSC, hip and knee surgeon at HSS presented at The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting, which found that young, active patients who underwent total knee replacement were more likely to outlive their prostheses than experience implant failure.

“What we found is that patients were four to five times more likely to die than to have their knee revised,” Dr. Long, explained. “If you have an arthritic knee and you are undergoing joint replacement, even in your 50s, you should worry about your lifespan, not the span of your knee replacement.”

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