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Anti-rheumatic treatment and prosthetic joint infection: an observational study in 494 elective hip and knee arthroplasties

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections are more frequent among patients with rheumatic disease. To what extent this is related to immunosuppressive antirheumatic drugs is unclear, as is the value of discontinuing medication perioperatively. The aim of study was to assess the rate of surgical site infe...

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Autores principales: Borgas, Ylva, Gülfe, Anders, Kindt, Mikael, Stefánsdóttir, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7325063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32600315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03459-z