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Intra-articular injection of tranexamic acid via a drain plus drain-clamping to reduce blood loss in cementless total knee arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing cementless total knee arthroplasty (TKA) sometimes suffer large blood loss. In a retrospective study, we explored whether postoperative intra-articular retrograde injection of tranexamic acid (TA) and leaving a drain clamp in place for 1 h reduced blood loss. PATIENTS...

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Autores principales: Mutsuzaki, Hirotaka, Ikeda, Kotaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23020868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-7-32