Risk of Ischemic Stroke After Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation in  Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty Patients

To determine if new-onset perioperative atrial fibrillation during arthroplasty represents a benign response to intraoperative cardiac stress or is a risk factor for stroke, we evaluated the subsequent risk of ischemic stroke in patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation occurring during primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA).

Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty - April 16, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Sariah Khormaee, Huong T. Do, Yevgeniy Mayr, Gino Gialdini, Hooman Kamel, Stephen Lyman, Michael B. Cross Source Type: research