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This study aimed to evaluate the risk of revision following TKA performed with and without patellar resurfacing using data from the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The AJRR was queried for all patients aged 65 years and older undergoing elective TKA between January 2012 and March 2020 with a minimum 2-year follow-up. Cases were linked using supplemental Centers for Medicare and Medicaid data. Cases with hybrid fixation, highly constrained implants, and revision components were excluded. Patients were categorized into two groups: those with a resurfaced patella and those without. Cumulative incidence function (CIF) curves and cause-specific Cox models were utilized to assess all-cause revision risk, adjusting for sex, age, femoral design (cruciate retaining vs. posterior stabilized), fixation type (cemented vs. cementless), and Charlson Comorbidity Index.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Of the 390,304 TKAs with minimum 2-year follow-up in our cohort, 22,829 had no patellar resurfacing performed. Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) revealed no significant difference in all-cause revision (HR\u2009=\u20090.96, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.81\u20131.13, p\u2009=\u20090.656), revision for mechanical loosening (HR\u2009=\u20091.61 [0.88, 2.93], p\u2009=\u20090.122), or revision for infection (HR\u2009=\u20091.02 [0.79, 1.33], p\u2009=\u20090.860) associated with patellar resurfacing status.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Our study found that patients with an unresurfaced patella do not face an increased short-term revision risk following TKA. These findings challenge the necessity of routine patellar resurfacing and underscore the importance of considering other factors, such as femoral design, patient comorbidities, and implant-related variables in revision risk stratification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-2468-6289","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,14]],"date-time":"2024-11-14T19:13:20Z","timestamp":1731611600000},"page":"122-129","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Leaving the Patella Unresurfaced Does Not Increase the Risk of Short-Term Revision Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis from the American Joint Replacement Registry"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"38","author":[{"given":"Dencel A.","family":"Garc\u00eda V\u00e9lez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anirudh","family":"Buddhiraju","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ryland","family":"Kagan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Isabella","family":"Zaniletti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Combined Analytics Team, Registries and Quality, Rosemont, Illinois"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ayushmita","family":"De","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Combined Analytics Team, Registries and Quality, Rosemont, Illinois"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Harpal S.","family":"Khanuja","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher E.","family":"Pelt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6665-0442","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vishal","family":"Hegde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,2]]},"reference":[{"issue":"01","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"108","DOI":"10.3109\/17453670903413145","article-title":"Early outcomes of patella resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty","volume":"81","author":"W J Clements","year":"2010","journal-title":"Acta Orthop"},{"issue":"04","key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"448","DOI":"10.1302\/0301-620X.65B4.6874718","article-title":"Why not resurface the patella?","volume":"65","author":"J P Levai","year":"1983","journal-title":"J Bone Joint Surg Br"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1016\/j.arth.2008.06.009","article-title":"Should the patella be resurfaced in primary total knee arthroplasty? 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