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When it is not advisable to implement a knee?

The contraindication is the clearest infection: microbes nestle in any foreign body. Usually only be eradicated if the material is removed. In the case of a prosthesis is a tragedy for both the patient and the surgeon, the problems arising both treatment of the aftermath. The infection is seen not only in the knee. Any body part that this infection may send their germs through the blood to the prosthesis. The infection typically goes unnoticed is that which affects the teeth: a decayed tooth is a source of infection but not hurt or swell.

In turn, the infected prosthesis or nest serves as a reservoir of germs that can migrate at any time by the blood and cause a severe infection with consequences that can even be fatal. Therefore infection must be cured first, and then implanting the prosthesis. The problem is that there is never 100% security is not infected.Nor should it be implemented when there is a poor health increases the risk of death or serious sequelae due to surgery or anesthesia, uncontrolled diabetes, severe lung injury or heart severely impaired blood clotting. But in mild cases the patient has the last word, but he and family members should understand the risks it assumes.

- Insufficient muscle paralysis.

- In case of irreversible dementia.

In young patients should be delayed as much as possible. The bone is of good quality to accommodate the prosthesis but the activity of the young person is high, which loosens the implant and force them to refill the prosthesis in a few years.

credit to: Dr. Alain Vannineuse, Dr. Roberto Palacio González