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Table 4 Complications during follow-up

From: Better clinical outcome of total knee arthroplasty for rheumatoid arthritis with perioperative glucocorticoids and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs after an average of 11.4-year follow-up

  Group A Group B Group C P A vs B A vs C B vs C
Deep venous thrombosis (cases) 1 4 0 0.03 0.14 1.00 0.03
Number of other short-term complications§ 4† 0 4 ‡ 0.15 / / /
 Systematic 2 0 3 0.36 / / /
 Wound 1 0 0 0.99 / / /
 Surgical 1 0 1 0.99 / / /
Long term 0 0 1 0.63    
  1. †Included allergic shock after blood transfusion; hemarthrosis; subcutaneous adiponecrosis and common peroneal nerve compression; sciatic nerve injury
  2. ‡Included urinary infection; herpes zoster; compromised sensory function of planta pedis and plantar flexion ability of the first toe; thrombocytopenia
  3. § Short-term complications are defined as those no more than 3 months after surgery