Body mass and weight thresholds for increased prosthetic joint infection rates after primary total joint arthroplasty

Background and purpose — Obesity increases the risk of deep infection after total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Our objective was to determine whether there may be body mass index (BMI) and weight thresholds indicating a higher prosthetic joint infection rate. Patients and methods — We included all 9,06...

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Publicado no:Acta Orthop
Main Authors: Lübbeke, Anne, Zingg, Matthieu, Vu, Diemlan, Miozzari, Hermes H, Christofilopoulos, Panayiotis, Uçkay, Ilker, Harbarth, Stephan, Hoffmeyer, Pierre
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4812074/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26731633
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2015.1126157
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