Functional Outcome of Total Knee Replacement in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis - A Prospective Study

Background: Total knee replacement in rheumatoid arthritis requires special precautions to be taken because of valgus deformity, more blood loss, osteoporotic bone and systemic nature of disease in our study we intend to study functional outcome of total knee replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Materials and methods: 34 patients undergoing TKR having rheumatoid arthritis as diagnosis were enrolled. knee society scores done at pre operative period and postoperatively at 3 months, 6 month and 1 year. Results: We found out that 27 of the 34 patients had excellent functional score , 2 patients had good functional score and 2 patients had fair functional score according to Knee society scoring system at the end of 1 year. Conclusion: More than 80 percent of patients in our study had excellent functional scores at the end of 1year. Total knee replacement is good surgical option for rheumatoid arthritis of knee.