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Tobacco Exposure Is Associated With Extremely Low Polyethylene Oxidation in Total Knee Arthroplasty Components

BACKGROUND: We evaluate whether patient exposures such as tobacco use are associated with high systemic or local in vivo oxidative state and with increased in vivo polyethylene oxidation. METHODS: We performed a case-control study which evaluated clinical factors associated with high systemic or loc...

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Autores principales: Kunkel, Samuel T., Moschetti, Wayne E., Werth, Paul, Fillingham, Yale, Jevsevar, David, VanCitters, Douglas, Currier, John, Currier, Barbara, Henderson, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8080396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33948459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2021.02.010