Outcome analysis of hip or knee arthroplasty in patients with cirrhotic liver disease

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• 作者：Young-Jun Seol ; Taek-Rim Yoon ; Dong-Hyun Lee ; Sun-Ho Lee ; Kyung-Soon Park ; ^{chiasma@hanmail.net}
• 刊名：Journal of Orthopaedics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 页码：171-175
• 全文大小：201 K
• 卷排序：14

文摘

Present helpful measures to prevent expected complications that occur in patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing arthroplasty.Methods218 patients who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty were included in this study. Prognoses of patients with underlying disease of liver cirrhosis and those without are compared with measures.ResultsPatients with liver cirrhosis show an increase in amount of bleeding, hospital stay and infection rate compared to those who do not.ConclusionThe risk of arthroplasty on patients with liver cirrhosis is higher than normal patients. Surgeons should carefully assess all cirrhotic patients pre- and postoperatively.