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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Thanks for your good wishes. Sadly it all went south not long after. It was about 12 months after the first TKR, around June 2021, when I realised the right knee was hurting a lot more than it should. X-rays initially suggested a fracture, but the surgeon decided it was AVN instead. The...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    It's been an eventful few weeks since I did my last update. My legal training demands I report in bullet points: As reported above, on October 24, recovery was going well. By Oct 28, the knee was painful, tender and more swollen. On Saturday 29, it had gotten much worse and at 1530 I went to my...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    And now it's 6 months later, and I'm recently home after some follow up surgery on the right knee which suffered the AVN, and has been extremely sore for as long as I can remember. This time it was just keyhole surgery, and just one night in hospital. Something new to me was that apparently...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Six weeks post-surgery yesterday, and recovery seems to be progressing nicely. My health insurance allows for 10 sessions of outpatient therapy, each session involving an hour in the gym under the supervision of a personal physical therapist, followed by an hour of similarly supervised...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Thanks Jaycey. I appreciate the information and the encouragement enormously. I've been a keen golfer all my life, and in 4 day tournaments they talk about the third day, usually the Saturday, as "moving day", when the most reshuffling of the field takes place. I went along for my first...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Hi Jessi_cat. Isn't it wonderful when you present with a condition and the surgeon says "Hmm, never seen one of them before." In my case my surgeon, who coincidentally is Irish and did his pre-Fellowship training in Dublin, said he'd only seen AV of P once before in his surgical career, and...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    I spent 6 days in surgical hospital (2 more than expected because of bed block at rehab), followed by 12 days in rehab doing daily physio and hydrotherapy. This seems a bit luxurious, and it was. The biggest issue for me was that I developed an allergic reaction to the sealed bandage which...
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    2022 March Musketeers - Are you having knee surgery in March?

    I'm having my left knee done on Monday 7 March, having had the right one done in May 2020.
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    I'm in Australia, and for some reason medical people here seem to refer to Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), rather than the eminently more sensible TKR. Anyway, I'm having my left knee done on Monday 7 March, having had the right one done in May 2020. I know what to expect. Last time, my surgeon...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Hello All. I'm Alan, a new member of the group, and had a TKA of my right knee in May 2020. All was well for about 6 months, but then the replaced knee started to ache, and after being initially diagnosed as a fractured kneecap, the problem was eventually diagnosed as Avascular Necrosis of the...
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    TKR Avascular necrosis of the patella

    Hello All. I'm Alan, a new member of the group, and had a TKA of my right knee in May 2020. All was well for about 6 months, but then the replaced knee started to ache, and after being initially diagnosed as a fractured kneecap, the problem was eventually diagnosed as Avascular Necrosis of the...
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