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Use of barbed suture had higher odds of wound infection after UKA
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Patients who received barbed sutures for wound closure after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty had higher odds of wound infection compared with patients who had conventional sutures, according to results.
Researchers retrospectively assigned 839 unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) procedures to a barbed suture or conventional suture cohort for wound closure. Researchers calculated the odds ratios with postoperative wound infection as the outcome and barbed suture as the exposure.
Overall, 333 surgeries received barbed sutures and 506 received conventional sutures. Researchers identified eight cases of postoperative wound infection, all of which occurred in the barbed suture cohort. According to regression analysis, subcuticular barbed suture had an association with postoperative wound infection. – by Casey Tingle
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