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Association of Extended Oral Antibiotic Prophylaxis With 90-Day Complication Rates After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Propensity-Matched Retrospective Cohort Study.

Article B Peer reviewed Small trial

Key takeaways

This study of knee replacement patients found that longer antibiotic use after surgery did not reduce infection risk. The group with 5 days of antibiotics had similar infection rates to the group with 14 days.

Who did this work

Haziza S · Greenberg M · Spagnuola J · Duchnycz R · Harbaugh T · Abdo ZE

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression and prevention · 2026 Aug 14
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42600869/