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. 2018 Nov 17;392(10160):2194–2202. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31771-9

Table 2.

Complications within 90 days

n (% [95% CI])
Any reoperation* 4239 (0·606% [0·588–0·624])
Serious complication 2218 (0·317% [0·304–0·330])
Infection 944 (0·135% [0·126–0·144])
Lower-respiratory-tract infection 931 (0·133% [0·125–0·142])
Urinary tract infection 647 (0·092% [0·085–0·100])
Pulmonary embolism 546 (0·078% [0·072–0·085])
Myocardial infarction 279 (0·040% [0·035–0·045])
Mortality 217 (0·031% [0·027–0·035])
Stroke 208 (0·030% [0·026–0·034])
Acute kidney injury 206 (0·029% [0·026–0·034])
Neurovascular injury 67 (0·010% [0·007–0·012])
Fasciotomy 33 (0·005% [0·003–0·007])
Fatal pulmonary embolism 10 (0·001% [0·000–0·003])

N=699 965.

*

Any procedure done in the same knee (eg, washout, meniscal repair, repeat meniscectomy, chondroplasty, ligamentous surgery, fasciotomy).

At least one serious complication within 90 days, defined as either pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, stroke, infection requiring surgery, fasciotomy, neurovascular injury, or death.

Infection requiring surgery (open or arthroscopic washout).