ĐẶC ĐIỂM LÂM SÀNG VÀ CẬN LÂM SÀNG CỦA BỆNH NHÂN THOÁI HOÁ KHỚP GỐI TẠI BỆNH VIỆN ĐA KHOA MÊ LINH

Abstract

Objectives: Describe clinical and subclinical characteristics of patients with knee osteoarthritis at Me Linh General Hospital. Subjects and methods: A randomized clinical intervention study on 60 patients over 40 years of age with a definitive diagnosis of stage I and II knee osteoarthritis at Me Linh General Hospital from January 2021 to October 2021. Results: The age of patients with osteoarthritis in the study was mainly over 60 years old (75%), with the higher percentage of women (75% compared with 25%), most of them are workers and farmers (28.3% and 31.7%). Most of the study patients had normal BMI (83.4%). The most common clinical symptom is knee pain (100%), followed by morning stiffness (65%) and crepitus (55%). X-ray images show that grade II knee osteoarthritis is predominant in the studied patients and both knees (50% of the left knee and 43.3% of the right knee). The ultrasound image showed that there was a joint effusion on ultrasound in 35% in the left knee and 26.7% in the right knee. Conclusion: Osteoarthritis patients are usually female, over 60 years old, have normal BMI, common symptoms are knee pain, morning stiffness, and crepitus. Subclinical often has X-ray image of knee osteoarthritis grade II, with knee effusion on ultrasound.