Risk factors for pulmonary complications, including pulmonary embolism, after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in elderly Koreans

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-303

  Ryu, Yon Ju ^a   Chun, Eun Mi ^a   Shim, Sung Shine ^a   Kim, Jun Shik ^a   Kim, Young Hoo ^a  

^a Mokdong Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complications; Postoperative; Pulmonary thromboembolisms; Total knee arthroplasty in elderly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KOREA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77957348316     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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