D De Mauro, G Balato, E Festa, A Di Cristo, L Marasco, G Loffredo, P Di Lauro, D Di Gennaro, G Maccauro, D Rosa
BACKGROUND: Obesity represents an epidemic of rising numbers worldwide year after year. In the Orthopedic field, obesity is one of the major causes leading to osteoarthritis needing Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA). Still, contextually, it represents one of the most significant risk factors for joint replacement complications and failures. So, bariatric Surgery (BS) is becoming a valuable option for weight control and mitigating obesity-related risk factors. This review of the literature and meta-analysis aims to evaluate periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) and surgical site infections (SSI) rates in patients who underwent TKA after BS compared to obese patients without BS...
April 1, 2024: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders