new YORK (Reuters Health) – a study reveals that the

results in smokers knee surgery are worse

which in the non-smoking that includes a healing not so

complete and more surgical complications.

smoking affects blood circulation, “so

alters the process of cure musculoskeletal”, said the

Dr. Kurt Spindler, Vanderbilt orthopaedic surgeon

University, Nashville, Tennessee, and that did not participate of the

study.

doctor David Flanigan, co-author of the study and medical

deportologo of The Ohio State University, Columbus, said that

surgeons suspected that smoking was associated

with poor results of surgery for knee. then, with

his team reviewed the medical literature to find any proof.

it gathered the results of 14 studies. eight research

had analyzed surgical repair of the ligaments of

knee including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), and six

studies had revised the repair of cartilage of knee.

all but a study on ACL surgery found that the

smokers tended to evolve worse than non-smokers, according to

publishes The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

for example: smokers were less likely to recover its

pre-surgical sporting level and felt more pain. A study of

the Faculty of Medicine of University of Pittsburgh determined

that patients who smoked were 64 percent less

likely than non-smokers to perceive a good evolution of

surgery.

the only study that found no difference between smokers and

the risk of developing non-smoking had analysed them

osteoarthritis of the knee.

four Estudios sobre la cirugía de cartílagos determinó que

los fumadores eran menos propensos que los geen fumadores een

obtener resultados quirúrgicos excelentes, geen recuperaban tanta

functionality de la rodilla años despues o tenían menos

proteínas saludables en el líquido de la rodilla. nl cambio, dos

estudios geen hallaron diferencias entre los niveles de dolor y

función.

La Sociedad Estadounidense de Ortopedia nl Medicina del Deporte

estima que nl Estados Unidos se producen Oenas 150.000 lesiones

de LCA por año.

“geen contamos con un porcentaje. Les diría (een los pacientes) que

la cirugía tiene una creciente tasa de fallo, de pacientes que

geen evolucionan tan bien como los geen fumadores”, dijo Flanigan.

Los estudios revisados geen pudieron probar que el tabaquismo

fuera la única causa de los resultados quirúrgicos negativos en

los rokers. Vandaar, Flanigan zei dat we meer moeten doen

studies over de biologie van het roken en de reparatie van de

knie om te bepalen van de oorzaak van deze resultaten.

Bron: The American Journal of Sports Medicine, online 12

van September 2012