PROGNOSTIC ROLE OF SERUM ALBUMIN LEVEL IN RADIOLOGICAL PROGRESSION OF GONARTHROSIS: IS IT A BIOMARKER IN ITSELF? A BIOMARKER ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION?

The aim of our study is to evaluate the prognostic roles of serum albumin level and systemic inflammation-related indices, including and not including serum albumin level, in the radiological progression of gonarthrosis. In this retrospective study, between 10.01.2017 and 10.01.2022, the data of the patients between the ages of 50-80, who applied to Ufuk University Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation clinic with the complaint of knee pain and met the clinical criteria of the American Rheumatology Association for gonarthrosis (knee osteoarthritis) (knee pain on many days of the previous month, crepitation with active joint movement, morning stiffness lasting ≤ 30 minutes, age ≥38 years, bone enlargement of the knee on examination),and whose knee radiography and blood tests were evaluated at admission were scanned.