Table 1.

Characteristics and treatment in all reported patients with crystalline arthropathy in TKA.

Author	Age (yr)	Sex	Time after TKA	Affected side	History of gout/pseudogout	Diagnosis	Associated infection	Surgical treatment?	Medical treatment	Final follow-up	Successful outcome?a
Williamson et al. [5]	86	F	10 y	Left	N/a	Gout	No	Y	Colchicine, allopurinol	1 y	Y
Blyth et al. [6]	58	M	4 y	Right	Y	Gout	Staphylococcus aureus	Y	Antibiotics	N/a	N
	52	M	3 d	Right	Y	Gout	No	N	NSAIDs, colchicine, allopurinol	1 y	Y
Archibeck et al. [7]	66	M	10 and 12 y	Bilateral	N	Gout	No	Y	Colchicine, allopurinol	5 mo	Y
	88	F	9 y	Left	Y	Gout	No	Y	Colchicine	4 mo	Y
Crawford et al. [8]	59	F	3 mo	Left	N	Gout	No	N	NSAIDs, allopurinol	1 y	Y
Salin et al. [9]	50s	F	4 and 4 y	Bilateral	N	Gout	No	Y	Allopurinol, steroids	1 mo	Y
	80s	F	11 y	Left	Y	Gout	Escherichia coli	Y	Antibiotics, NSAIDs	N/a	Y
Berger et al. [10]	39	M	4 y	Right	Y	Gout	No	Y	NSAIDs, colchicine	N/a	Y
Fokter et al. [11]	68	M	11 mo	Left	N/a	Gout	No	N	NSAIDs, allopurinol	1 wk	Y
Freehill et al. [12]	77	F	10 y	Right	Y	Gout	Escherichia coli	Y	Antibiotics	8 wk	Y
Partridge et al. [15]	66	F	8 y	Right	Y	Gout	No	Y	Antibiotics, steroids	1 y	Y
Chen et al. [14]	43	M	7 y	Left	Y	Gout	No	N	Colchicine, allopurinol, steroids	1 y	Y
	72	M	10 y	Right	Y	Gout	No	N	Steroids	5 mo	Y
Yahia et al. [19]	72	F	31 d	Left	N/a	Gout	No	N	Colchicine	N/a	N/a
Zadaka et al. [13]	58	F	7 y	Right	N	Gout	No	N	Steroids, allopurinol	2 d	Y
	77	M	13 and 20 y	Bilateral	N	Gout/Pseudogout	No	N	Anitibiotics	"several days"	Y
Levi et al. [16]	70	F	8 y	Bilateral	N/a	Pseudogout	No	Y	Antibiotics, steroids	16 mo	Y
Koyama et al. [17]	64	F	13 d	Right	N	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	1 y	Y
	81	M	2 wk	Left	N	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	1 y	Y
Harato et al. [18]	85	M	15 d	Right	Y	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	1 y	Y
Yahia et al. [19]	79	M	7 d	Right	N/a	Pseudogout	No	N	Colchicine	N/a	N/a
	73	F	3 y	Right	N/a	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	N/a	N/a
	67	M	9 y	Right	N/a	Pseudogout	No	N	Steroids, colchicine	N/a	N/a
	77	F	15 d	Right	N/a	Pseudogout	Campylobacter fetus	N	Antibiotics	N/a	N/a
Holt et al. [20]	72	M	2 y	Left	N	Pseudogout	No	Y	NSAIDs	1 wk	Y
Hirose et al. [21]	59	F	7 d	Right	Y	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	1 y	Y
Sonsale et al. [22]	69	F	10 y	Right	N	Pseudogout	No	N	NSAIDs	8 y	Y

NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

^aSuccessfwl outcome defined as no recurrence of presenting symptoms.