Does Previous Varicose Vein Surgery Alter Deep Vein Thrombosis Risk after Lower Limb Arthroplasty?

OBJECTIVE: To determine the rates of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) in patients who have had previous varicose vein (VV) surgery. METHODS: Data on 57,364 patients who had undergone THAs and 51,859 patients w...

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Published in:Orthop Surg
Main Authors: Dua, Anahita, Neiva, Santiago, Sutherland, Alasdair
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6583367/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23109306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/os.12003
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