Venous thromboembolism in patients hospitalized for knee joint replacement surgery

Abstract Patients undergoing knee joint replacement (KJR) are at high risk of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE), but data on the time trends of VTE rate in this population are sparse. In this analysis of the German nationwide inpatient sample, we included all hospitalizations for elective p...

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Main Authors: Karsten Keller, Lukas Hobohm, Stefano Barco, Irene Schmidtmann, Thomas Münzel, Martin Engelhardt, Lukas Eckhard, Stavros V. Konstantinides, Philipp Drees
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79490-w