Long term safety, efficacy, and patient acceptability of hyaluronic acid injection in patients with painful osteoarthritis of the knee

Patient Preference and Adherence

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 905-910

  McArthur, Benjamin A ^a   Dy, Christopher J ^a   Fabricant, Peter D ^a   Gonzalez Della Valle, Alejandro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyaluronate; Intraarticular injection; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Viscosupplementation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CURAVISC; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; HYALURONIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CHONDROPROTECTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; MACROPHAGE; NEUTROPHIL; PAIN; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSEUDOGOUT; PSEUDOSEPSIS; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; VISCOSUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84883855276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1177889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PPA.S27783     Document Type: Article

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