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Table 4 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) events incidence

From: Incidence of venous thromboembolism and bleeding events in patients with lower extremity orthopedic surgery: a retrospective analysis of a Japanese healthcare database

Type of surgery

 

TKA

 

THA

 

HFS

Rupture of Achilles tendon

Simple fracture of lower extremities

n = 5023

 

n = 3856

n = 20,991

n = 572

n = 6639

 

n

%

95% CI

n

%

95% CI

n

%

95% CI

n

%

95% CI

n

%

95% CI

PTE events

8

0.2

0.0–0.3

6

0.2

0.0–0.3

29

0.1

0.1–0.2

0

–

–

3

0.0

0.0–0.1

DVT events

65

1.3

1.0–1.6

33

0.9

0.6–1.1

93

0.4

0.4–0.5

0

–

–

20

0.3

0.2–0.4

Any VTE events

68

1.4

1.0–1.7

36

0.9

0.6–1.2

102

0.5

0.4–0.6

0

–

–

20

0.3

0.2–0.4

  1. Other abbreviations are the same as Table 1
  2. PTE pulmonary thromboembolism, DVT deep venous thrombosis
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

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