Table 2 Patient-related outcome measures at pre-operative and 2-year follow-up evaluation, and the inter-group comparison
From: Role of debulking mucoid ACL in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a prospective multicentric study
Debulking group (n = 226) | No debulking group (n = 216) | Inter-group comparison (Mann–Whitney U test) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Z-value | p-Value | |
Knee Society score | ||||||
Pre-operative | 55.642 | 3.457 | 56.335 | 3.24 | 1.11 | 0.1 |
2-year follow-up | 93.60 | 3.182 | 87.25 | 5.488 | 12.339 | 0.000 |
IKDC | ||||||
Pre-operative | 48.26 | 2.892 | 48.981 | 3.17 | 1.08 | 0.11 |
2-year follow-up | 82.49 | 2.649 | 78.52 | 4.979 | 8.86 | 0.000 |
Flexion (degrees) | ||||||
Pre-operative | 96.385 | 5.779 | 98.09 | 4.79 | 2.773 | 0.06 |
2-year follow-up | 117.89 | 2.644 | 103.11 | 4.096 | 18.219 | 0.000 |
Patient satisfaction | ||||||
2-year follow-up | 9.832 | 0.375 | 8.676 | 0.707 | 16.083 | 0.000 |
VAS Score for rest pain | ||||||
2-year follow-up | 0.13 | 0.462 | 2.64 | 0.954 | 18.761 | 0.000 |
Lachman’s test (number of knees) | ||||||
Intra-operative | Stable: 199 1A*: 27 | – | – | – | – | |
2-year follow-up | Stable: 201 1A*: 25 | – | – | – | – | |