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. 2021 Sep 21;55(5):1101–1110. doi: 10.1007/s43465-021-00517-z

Table 4.

Adverse outcomes following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and high tibial osteotomy (matched analysis)

HTO (n = 23,563) UKA (n = 23,563) After PSM (adjusted)
N % 1000 PY N % 1000 PY HR 95% CI p value
Deep vein thromboembolism
 Events 133 (0.56%) 1.48 445 (1.89%) 4.16 0.27 (0.21, 0.35)  < 0.0001
 Days 699.70  ± 860.22 297.80  ± 657.60
Pulmonary thromboembolism
 Events 79 (0.34%) 0.88 113 (0.48%) 1.06 0.78 (0.59, 1.05) 0.0989
 Days 617.77  ± 804.16 774.77  ± 959.45
Cerebrovascular disease
 Events 3817 (16.20%) 42.49 4237 (17.98%) 39.59 1.03 (0.99, 1.08) 0.16
 Days 732.23  ± 795.41 859.86  ± 862.53
Myocardial infarction
 Events 247 (1.05%) 2.75 283 (1.20%) 2.64 1.01 (0.86, 1.21) 0.86
 Days 820.80  ± 921.52 979.82  ± 977.86
Acute renal failure
 Events 171 (0.73%) 1.90 207 (0.88%) 1.93 1.01 (0.82, 1.23) 0.96
 Days 1081.58  ± 978.64 1203.01  ± 943.17
Postoperative delirium
 Events 42 (0.18%) 0.47 38 (0.16%) 0.36 1.34 (0.86, 2.08) 0.20
 Days 831.36  ± 843.03 1325.66  ± 1018.10
Surgical site infection
 Events 210 (0.89%) 2.34 565 (2.40%) 5.28 0.37 (0.30, 0.44)  < 0.0001
Days 553.37  ± 782.56 525.61  ± 763.79

UKA unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, HTO high tibial osteotomy, HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval, PY person year, reference UKA, PSM propensity score matching