What's the reason for the knee artificial joint reoperation?Solve your questions on YouTube at Himchan Hospital
Jul 06, 2025
Himchan Hospital delivers detailed information on cases and treatments for knee artificial joint reoperation (replacement) through the YouTube section. Lee Soo-chan, CEO of orthopedics, and Baek Ji-hoon, head of the medical center, explain the total knee artificial joint replacement and partial replacement, and convey the life of the artificial joint and the cause of the reoperation easily.
Knee artificial joint surgery is an operation in which all or part of the joint is replaced with an artificial joint in patients with terminal knee arthritis who have severe pain due to degenerative changes and deformations to the legs. Since the lifespan of artificial joints has increased compared to the past, it is known that total replacement surgery is more than 25 years, and partial replacement surgery is about 20 years.
Occasionally, reoperation is required for several reasons. Of the 48,000 total knee arthroplasty cases performed by Himchan Hospital for 19 years from 2006 to 2024, 530 cases (1.1%) were reoperation, and 40% were due to artificial joint infections, followed by dissociation of artificial joint implants with 36%.
Baek Ji-hoon, head of the medical center, easily explained the cause of the knee artificial joint reoperation through the case. Usually, when an infection occurs, it may be treated with antibiotics within the first 72 hours of occurrence. However, if the time is delayed after infection, it is difficult to solve it by injection and reoperation should be considered. It tells us why the condition of the bone and the body's immunity are important when infected through cases.
Director Baek Ji-hoon "Reoperation due to infection will be performed more firmly using longer implants after completely removing the existing implants, cleaning up the surrounding inflammation, etc. for at least 6-8 weeks."`"Once infected patients are more likely to be reinfected, and the probability of infected patients being infected again after reoperation is known to be three to five times higher than at the beginning, so special care should be taken.'
The follow-up, which will be released on the 11th, will cover other causes and coping methods through other reoperation cases. In addition, the cause and treatment can be confirmed through reoperation cases of partial replacement surgery.
Knee artificial joint surgery is an operation in which all or part of the joint is replaced with an artificial joint in patients with terminal knee arthritis who have severe pain due to degenerative changes and deformations to the legs. Since the lifespan of artificial joints has increased compared to the past, it is known that total replacement surgery is more than 25 years, and partial replacement surgery is about 20 years.
Occasionally, reoperation is required for several reasons. Of the 48,000 total knee arthroplasty cases performed by Himchan Hospital for 19 years from 2006 to 2024, 530 cases (1.1%) were reoperation, and 40% were due to artificial joint infections, followed by dissociation of artificial joint implants with 36%.
Baek Ji-hoon, head of the medical center, easily explained the cause of the knee artificial joint reoperation through the case. Usually, when an infection occurs, it may be treated with antibiotics within the first 72 hours of occurrence. However, if the time is delayed after infection, it is difficult to solve it by injection and reoperation should be considered. It tells us why the condition of the bone and the body's immunity are important when infected through cases.
Director Baek Ji-hoon "Reoperation due to infection will be performed more firmly using longer implants after completely removing the existing implants, cleaning up the surrounding inflammation, etc. for at least 6-8 weeks."`"Once infected patients are more likely to be reinfected, and the probability of infected patients being infected again after reoperation is known to be three to five times higher than at the beginning, so special care should be taken.'
The follow-up, which will be released on the 11th, will cover other causes and coping methods through other reoperation cases. In addition, the cause and treatment can be confirmed through reoperation cases of partial replacement surgery.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
