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Surgical site infection and transfusion rates are higher in underweight total knee arthroplasty patients

BACKGROUND: Underweight (UW) patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty have exhibited higher complication rates, including infection and transfusion. No study to our knowledge has evaluated UW total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients. We, therefore, conducted a study to investigate if these patients...

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Autores principales: Manrique, Jorge, Chen, Antonia F., Gomez, Miguel M., Maltenfort, Mitchell G., Hozack, William J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5365405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28378008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2016.03.005