Intravenous vs Topical Tranexamic Acid in Total Knee Arthroplasty Without Tourniquet Application: A Randomized Controlled Study

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2465-2470

  Tzatzairis, Themistoklis K ^a   Drosos, Georgios I ^a   Kotsios, Stamatios E ^a   Ververidis, Athanasios N ^a   Vogiatzaki, Theodosia D ^a   Kazakos, Konstantinos I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

blood loss; total knee arthroplasty; tourniquet; tranexamic acid; transfusion; without

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFECTION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PALLOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE REPLACEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TOURNIQUET;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOURNIQUETS; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 84971616838     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: 15328406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2016.04.036     Document Type: Article

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