Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review

Compartment syndrome is a rare complication of total knee replacement (TKR) surgery that needs prompt diagnosis and treatment as it may be associated with high morbidity and mortality. We have found very few reports in the literature describing compartment syndrome after TKRs and therefore, present...

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Autores principales: Shaath, Mohammed, Sukeik, Mohamed, Mortada, Saadallah, Masterson, Sean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5027017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27672575
http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v7.i9.618
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author Shaath, Mohammed
Sukeik, Mohamed
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description Compartment syndrome is a rare complication of total knee replacement (TKR) surgery that needs prompt diagnosis and treatment as it may be associated with high morbidity and mortality. We have found very few reports in the literature describing compartment syndrome after TKRs and therefore, present a relevant case which occurred in the immediate postoperative phase and was treated with fasciotomy and subsequent operations to close the soft tissue defects.
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spelling pubmed-50270172016-09-26 Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review Shaath, Mohammed Sukeik, Mohamed Mortada, Saadallah Masterson, Sean World J Orthop Case Report Compartment syndrome is a rare complication of total knee replacement (TKR) surgery that needs prompt diagnosis and treatment as it may be associated with high morbidity and mortality. We have found very few reports in the literature describing compartment syndrome after TKRs and therefore, present a relevant case which occurred in the immediate postoperative phase and was treated with fasciotomy and subsequent operations to close the soft tissue defects. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2016-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5027017/ /pubmed/27672575 http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v7.i9.618 Text en ©The Author(s) 2016. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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title_full Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review
title_fullStr Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review
title_short Compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: A case report and literature review
title_sort compartment syndrome following total knee replacement: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5027017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27672575
http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v7.i9.618
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