Post- operative complications for patients with Rheumatoid arthritis undergoing elective orthopedic procedures with or without methotrexate
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Methotrexate and post operative complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery--a ten year follow-up.
In the 1990's there were concerns that methotrexate might increase the risk of post operative complications following elective orthopaedic surgery; as a result many Units initiated policies to discontinue methotrexate prior to elective orthopaedic surgery. In 2001 we carried out a controlled study of complications after elective surgery in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who either continued...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Orthopaedics Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2395-1958
DOI: 10.22271/ortho.2021.v7.i1f.2503