Risk factors found to be associated with VTE of both total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty included older age, female sex, higher BMI, bilateral surgery, surgery time > 2 hours.

Longer surgery time was found to be a VTE risk factor for both two kinds of arthroplasty surgeries of low limb. An operation lasting more than 2 hours may increase the VTE risk, probably because ...

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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center ... erasmusmc.nl Background Although recurrent hamstring injury is a frequent problem with a significant impact on athletes, data ...

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