Low relative muscle volume: Correlation with prevalence of venous thromboembolism following total knee arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND:There have been many efforts to find modifiable risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the perioperative period of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), while no study has investigated the relationship between the muscle mass and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism frequen...

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Main Authors: Jung-Min Shin, Su-Jin Hong, Kyung-Hwa Choi, Sung-Il Shin, Do Kyung Lee, Sung-Sahn Lee, Byung Hoon Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210800