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01-02-2016 | Reply to the Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Low Albumin Levels, More Than Morbid Obesity, Are Associated With Complications After TKA

Authors: Jiabin Liu, MD, PhD, Nabil M. Elkassabany, MD, MSCE, Atul F. Kamath, MD, Charles L. Nelson, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 2/2016

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We thank Xue and colleagues for their comments regarding our study. They highlighted several potentially important factors on complications after TKA. As addressed in our manuscript, our study is a retrospective outcomes study. It is our best intention to study many interesting risk factors while maintaining our focus. Therefore, we limited the number of risk factors in our analysis to the most interesting ones to us and other physicians in general, as we believe they are the most-representative and thought-provoking risk factors to consider. Still, we conducted further analysis with additional variables, including anemia, duration of surgery, and type of anesthesia (Fig. 1). We hope this can provide a basis for future research. …

Liu J, Ma C, Elkassabany N, Fleisher LA, Neuman MD. Neuraxial anesthesia decreases postoperative systemic infection risk compared with general anesthesia in knee arthroplasty. Anesth Analg. 2013;117:1010–1016.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef

Title: Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Low Albumin Levels, More Than Morbid Obesity, Are Associated With Complications After TKA
Authors: Jiabin Liu, MD, PhD
Nabil M. Elkassabany, MD, MSCE
Atul F. Kamath, MD
Charles L. Nelson, MD
Publication date: 01-02-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-015-4662-6

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