Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review

INTRODUCTION: Infection poses a substantial challenge after joint replacement. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 53-year-old female with multiple co-morbidities, who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty. Her postoperative course was complicated by acute cholecystitis necessitating cholecystecto...

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Autores principales: Ghalimah, Bayan, Hamdi, Amre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703950
http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.460
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description INTRODUCTION: Infection poses a substantial challenge after joint replacement. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 53-year-old female with multiple co-morbidities, who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty. Her postoperative course was complicated by acute cholecystitis necessitating cholecystectomy. CONCLUSION: In patients who require joint replacement surgery, careful and detailed preoperative assessment is important to identify those at risk for this complication in order to provide timely treatment.
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spelling pubmed-50405582016-10-04 Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review Ghalimah, Bayan Hamdi, Amre J Orthop Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Infection poses a substantial challenge after joint replacement. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 53-year-old female with multiple co-morbidities, who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty. Her postoperative course was complicated by acute cholecystitis necessitating cholecystectomy. CONCLUSION: In patients who require joint replacement surgery, careful and detailed preoperative assessment is important to identify those at risk for this complication in order to provide timely treatment. Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5040558/ /pubmed/27703950 http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.460 Text en Copyright: © Indian Orthopaedic Research Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Acute Cholecystitis Following Total Knee Replacement: A Case Report and Literature Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040558/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.460
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