Abstract
The authors used the California Health Facilities Discharge data for 1984 and 1985 to compare retrospectively in-hospital morbidity and mortality of all 721 patients with rheumatoid arthritis versus all 8,859 patients with osteoarthritis who underwent a non-emergent, first-time, unilateral total hip arthroplasty. The lengths of hospitalization, in-hospital mortality rates, and incidences of post-operative complications were similar in the two groups except for higher rates of wound infection and wound dehiscence in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis and a higher rate of thromboembolic events in the osteoarthritis group. The short-term outcome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis appears comparable to that of patients with osteoarthritis.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 304-309 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of General Internal Medicine |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1990 |
Keywords
- hip arthroplasty
- osteoarthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- surgery
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Internal Medicine