Elevated postoperative blood glucose and preoperative hemoglobin a1c are associated with increased wound complications following total joint arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 808-814

  Stryker, Louis S ^a   Abdel, Matthew P ^a   Morrey, Mark E ^a   Morrow, Melissa M ^a   Kor, Daryl J ^a   Morrey, Bernard F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOMA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ARTHROPATHY; ARTHROPLASTY; BLOOD; DIABETES MELLITUS; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879301747     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00494     Document Type: Article

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