Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty in Super-obese Patients: Dramatically Higher Postoperative Complication Rates Even Compared to Revision Surgery

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 849-853

  Werner, Brian C ^a   Evans, Cody L ^a   Carothers, Joshua T ^b   Browne, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b New Mexico Orthopaedics   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Obesity; Revision total knee arthroplasty; Super obesity; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIGIDITY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 84929022992     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2014.12.016     Document Type: Article

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