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Table 1 Patient demographic parameters

From: A comparative study of total knee arthroplasty outcome for stiff knee with or without sequential antirheumatic drug treatment

Parameters

Drug treatment

(N = 16, 27 knees)

No drug treatment

(N = 11, 17 knees)

p value

 Agea, year

39.56 ± 11.74

38.64±9.21

0.828

 Gender

  Male, no. (%)

8 (50%)

7(63.63%)

0.696

  Female, no.(%)

8 (50%)

4(36.36%)

 

 Heighta, cm

163.94 ± 12.15

162.82±8.32

0.793

 Weighta, kg

62.29 ± 15.61

54.00±8.34

0.121

 BMIa, kg/m2

22.97 ± 4.15

20.44±3.25

0.102

 Diagnosis

  

1.000

  Rheumatoid arthritis

9

7

 

  Ankylosing spondylitis

7

4

 

 Knee

  Left knee

13

10

0.548

  Right knee

14

7

 

 Bilateral TKAs

11

6

 

 Unilateral TKA

5

5

 

 Inpatient daysb, days

13.5 (6–29)

12 (7–28)

0.568

 Follow-upb, months

46.5 (35–69)

58 (34–69)

0.138

 Crutch, no. (%)

  With crutch

7 (43.75%)

2 (18.18%)

0.231

  Without crutch

9 (56.25%)

9 (81.82%)

 

 Revision knee, no. (%)

2 (2/44, 2.27%)

0

1.000

  1. BMI body mass index
  2. aThe values are given as the mean and the standard deviation
  3. bThe values are given as the median, with the range in parentheses