Bariatric surgery prior to total knee arthroplasty is associated with fewer postoperative complications

This study used a national database to compare 90 day postoperative complication rates between three groups of patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA):

1.non-obese patients (n = 66,523),morbidly obese patients who did not have bariatric surgery (n = 11,294)morbidly obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery prior to TKA (n = 219).

2.Morbidly obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery prior to TKA had reduced rates of major (OR 0.45, P = 0.001) and minor (OR 0.61, P = 0.01) complications compared to morbidly obese patients who did not have bariatric surgery.

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