Risk of Postoperative Stiffness Following Multiligamentous Knee Injury Surgery Is Not Affected by Obesity: A Multicenter Study
Bi AS, Mojica ES, Markus DH, Blaeser AM, Kahan J, Moran J, Jazrawi LM, Medvecky MJ, Alaia MJ. Risk of Postoperative Stiffness Following Multiligamentous Knee Injury Surgery Is Not Affected by Obesity: A Multicenter Study. Arthroscopy The Journal Of Arthroscopic And Related Surgery 2022, 38: 3175-3181. PMID: 35777677, DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2022.06.017.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultiligamentous knee injuriesBody mass indexPostoperative stiffnessVascular injuryIndex surgerySurgical managementExact testLevel 1 academic trauma centerBMI of patientsMulticenter retrospective cohort studyMean body mass indexLogistic regressionRate of MUATwo-center cohortRetrospective cohort studyEffect of obesityAcademic trauma centerGrade of obesityMultivariate logistic regressionExternal fixator useFisher's exact testSignificant differencesCovariates of ageMUA proceduresSchenck classification