The Risk of a Deep Infection Associated With Intraarticular Injections Before a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Nirav H. Amin; Didi Omiyi; Bozena Kuczynski; Fred D. Cushner; Giles R. Scuderi

doi:10.1016/j.arth.2015.08.001

The Risk of a Deep Infection Associated With Intraarticular Injections Before a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Nirav H. Amin, Didi Omiyi, Bozena Kuczynski, Fred D. Cushner, Giles R. Scuderi

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The aim of the study is to identify the risks associated with an intraarticular injection before a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). A total of 1628 patients were retrospectively studied over a 7-year period. The patients were divided into 2 groups: patient who received an intraarticular injection before a TKA and patients who did not receive an injection before a TKA. There were 16 deep infections identified (0.98%). Ten deep infections were identified in the patients who did not receive an injection before a TKA (1.18%), and 6 deep infections were identified in patients who received an injection before a TKA (0.77%). There does not appear to be a correlation with the timing of the injection before surgery and increased risk of infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	240-244
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Arthroplasty
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2015.08.001
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Keywords

Infections
Injections
Steroids
Total knee arthroplasty
Viscosupplementation

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