Higher incidence of total knee arthroplasty in women than in men.

Dr Lavernia is from the Orthopaedic Institute at Mercy Hospital, Miami, Florida. Dr Lavernia is a designer for Zimmer and receives royalties on the CR Flex and the ML taper products. In this issue of Orthopedics, Dr Carlos Lavernia, medical director of the Orthopaedic Institute at Mercy Hospital, discusses research stating that female patients postpone necessary knee arthroplasty procedures more often than male patients, as well as some of the possible causes for this discrepancy.