Better clinical outcome of total knee arthroplasty for rheumatoid arthritis with perioperative glucocorticoids and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs after an average of 11.4-year follow-up

Table 4 Complications during follow-up

	Group A	Group B	Group C	P	A vs B	A vs C	B vs C
Deep venous thrombosis (cases)	1	4	0	0.03	0.14	1.00	0.03
Number of other short-term complications§	4†	0	4 ‡	0.15	/	/	/
Systematic	2	0	3	0.36	/	/	/
Wound	1	0	0	0.99	/	/	/
Surgical	1	0	1	0.99	/	/	/
Long term	0	0	1	0.63

†Included allergic shock after blood transfusion; hemarthrosis; subcutaneous adiponecrosis and common peroneal nerve compression; sciatic nerve injury
‡Included urinary infection; herpes zoster; compromised sensory function of planta pedis and plantar flexion ability of the first toe; thrombocytopenia
§ Short-term complications are defined as those no more than 3 months after surgery

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