Preoperative Platelet and International Normalized Ratio Thresholds and Their Impact on Complications Following Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty
Rigel P. Hall, Collin L. Braithwaite, Jens T. Verhey, David G. Deckey, Paul R. Van Schuyver, Ryan Lebens, Joshua S. Bingham, Mark J. Spangehl, Zachary K. Christopher · 2026
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Description
Rigel Hall and co-authors test blood cut-offs in 2026 for patients facing redo hip or knee replacement. Usual rules ask for a platelet count above one level and a clotting score below another. The team doubted those lines catch the risk from mild clotting weakness, so they split patients into finer bands.
Records came from a large health database, with blood values from the month before surgery. Matched groups were compared on bleeding, clots, wound trouble, infection, redo work, and death over two years. The lowest platelet band tied to more blood transfusions, more early bleeding, and higher infection and death by two years, they report. Finer bands give surgeons a sharper risk talk than one pass-fail line.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rigel P. Hall, Collin L. Braithwaite, Jens T. Verhey, David G. Deckey, Paul R. Van Schuyver, Ryan Lebens, Joshua S. Bingham, Mark J. Spangehl, Zachary K. Christopher |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |