Total Wrist Arthroplasty (Three Cases Report)

Lee, Seung Koo; Kim, Won Suk

Abstract

We have performed three total wrist arthroplasty of Meuli type on the dominant wrist of three female patients who have been suffering from the classical rheumatoid arthritis for more than two years, and after follow them for average twenty months postoperatively, we have found, even the complications and reoperation rate after total wrist arthroplasty are reported high in literature, three patients have reasonably satisfied with the remarkable relief of pain and the functional abilities of their wrists. It is our belief, even if the total wrist arthroplasty is also still in controversy, that in those patients with bilateral wrist involvement by the rheumatoid arthritis in whom arthrodesis was done on one wrist, then a total wrist arthroplasty on dominant wrist is a most prefer way to reconstruct the disabled wrists.