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Table 1 Characteristics of the included articles

From: The effects of tourniquet use on blood loss in primary total knee arthroplasty for patients with osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis

Study

Year

Sample size

Sex (M/F)

Mean age (years)

BMI (kg/m2)

Cemented

Prosthesis type

Patellar resurfacing

Thromboprophylaxis

Hemostasis

  

T

NT

T

NT

T

NT

T

NT

     

P. Aglietti

1999

10

10

3/7

4/6

70.0

68.0

27.9

27.3

Y

M.B.K, Zimmer

NS

NS

NS

H.M. Wakankar

1999

37

40

11/26

14/26

72.5

71.8

NS

NS

Y

Insall-Burstein

Y

Warfarin

NS

Eric Vanden

2002

40

40

9/31

16/24

72.5

68.5

NS

NS

Y

Wallaby I, Protek

NS

NS

NS

G. Matziolis

2005

10

10

2/8

3/7

72.4

76.6

28.3

29.5

Y

PFC Sigma, Depuy

N

NS

NS

K. Kageyama

2007

11

11

2/9

2/9

73.0

76.0

26.6

24.7

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS

Ta-Wei Tai

2012

36

36

9/27

8/28

72.1

71.5

28.6

27.9

Y

Genesis II or U2

NS

NS

NS

Hakan Ledin

2012

25

23

10/15

9/14

70.0

71.0

29.0

28.0

Y

NexgenCR, Zimmer

NS

Low-molecular-weight

NS

David Liu

2014

10

10

7/3

9/1

67.0

70.0

25.6

27.1

Y

NS

Y

NS

NS

Ashir Ejaz

2014

33

31

18/15

17/14

68.0

68.0

25.0

25.0

Y

NexgenCR, Zimmer

Y

Rivaroxaban

Tranexamic

Ashir Ejaz

2015

31

31

16/15

17/14

68.3

68.2

25.1

25.2

Y

NS

Y

NS

NS

A. Douglas

2016

28

28

16/12

16/12

62.0

62.0

29.0

29.0

Y

NS

N

Y

NS

  1. T tourniquet, NT no tourniquet