Severely Obese Patients Have a Higher Risk of Infection After Direct Anterior Approach Total Hip Arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 162-165

  Purcell, Richard L ^a,b   Parks, Nancy L ^b   Gargiulo, Jeanine M ^c   Hamilton, William G ^b,c,d  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ANDERSON ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Anderson Orthopaedic Clinic   (United States)

^d Mount Vernon Hospital USA   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior approach; infection; obesity; primary hip arthroplasty; wound complications

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXITIS; DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH PRIMARY TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL WOUND; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; COMPLICATION; HIP REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; VIRGINIA;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84964589436     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2016.03.037     Document Type: Article

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