Post-operative blood loss in total knee arthroplasty: knee flexion versus pharmacological techniques

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2756-2762

  Antinolfi, Pierluigi ^a   Innocenti, Bernardo ^b   Caraffa, Auro ^c   Peretti, Giuseppe ^d   Cerulli, Giuliano ^c  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood loss; post operative knee flexion; TKA; Tranexamic acid

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 84919623578     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-013-2674-x     Document Type: Article

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