A retrospective study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators found that infection rates at a high-volume academic orthopedic center following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are uniformly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After suffering from debilitating pain for years, Juan Alonso of New York finally had his knee replaced. Then—just a few weeks ...

Robotic-assisted total joint arthroplasty (TJA) continues to gain popularity, with the volume of robotic-assisted procedures increasing 601.2% between 2015 and 2020.(i) New research presented at the ...

Patients who took testosterone within a year of their surgery had a higher risk of infection, blood clots, kidney damage, pneumonia and knee instability after the procedure, researchers reported this ...

Millions of Americans are currently living with hip and knee replacements. While replacement surgery can be a good option, it’s not without risk. There can be serious complications. Consumer Reports ...

Frequent dental scaling reduces the risk of infection following knee replacement surgery, according to a new study published online in PLOS One (June 23, 2016). As oral bacteria are responsible for ...

Sometimes, arthritis affects only one knee compartment. In these cases, your doctor may recommend a partial knee replacement, in which they will replace only the affected compartment. X-ray scan ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the University of Bristol have identified the most important risk factors for developing severe infection after ...

The American College of Rheumatology and American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons teamed up to release a new guideline this month to reduce infections in total hip and knee replacement patients — ...

A woman in Wisconsin got a nasty bacterial infection in her knee, but the infection's source was an unexpected culprit: her vigorous tooth-flossing regimen. The results made little sense to the ...

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