Prosthetic Joint Infection Risk after TKA in the Medicare Population

By S. Kurtz, K. Ong, E. Lau, K. Bozic, D. Berry, J. Parvizi. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2010

730 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Surgery

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1. Robin Patel
2. J. Parvizi
3. J. Schmier
4. Heather Watson
5. S. Kurtz
6. E. Lau
7. Aaron Tande

Citations in the corpus

• Prosthetic Joint Infection (2014, background): “Some of these factors include male gender (6, 8, 20, 36, 46, 47), smoking (21), antecedent bacteremia (during the previous year) (48), and antecedent septic arthritis of the index joint (26).”
• Economic burden of periprosthetic joint infection in the United States. (2012, background): “It can present at any time after index arthroplasty [9,10] and requires surgical intervention, often multiple, to treat [5,11].”