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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Arthroplasty. 2017 Oct 31;33(3):893–896. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2017.10.042

Table 3.

Ninety-Day Medical Complication Rates and Statistical Analysis.

Medical Complications History of
Breast
Cancer
No History of
Breast Cancer
Odds
Ratio
95%
Confidence
Interval
P Value

Pulmonary embolism 0.59% 0.45% 1.323 1.09–1.59 .003
Acute post-operative
 anemia
3.59% 3.54% 1.015 0.945–1.09 .16
Acute myocardial
 infarction
0.16% 0.19% 0.845 0.61–1.15 .296
Deep venous thrombosis 1.23% 1.24% 0.987 0.876–1.113 .831
Pneumonia 0.74% 0.80% 0.917 0.788–1.067 .263
Pulmonary insufficiency 0.04% 0.03% 1.2 0.60–2.381 .601
Post-operative bleeding 0.67% 0.70% 0.951 0.810–1.117 .539
Cardiac complication 0.06% 0.09% 0.737 0.452–1.200 .218
Peripheral vascular
 complication
0.06% 0.07% 0.781 0.463–1.318 .354
Urinary complication 0.04% 0.04% 1.118 0.581–2.151 .739
Intubation 0.20% 0.19% 1.024 0.759–1.381 .879
Transfusion of blood 2.00% 2.02% 0.986 0.897–1.084 .773
Peripheral vascular
 ultrasound
0.21% 0.16% 1.32 0.965–1.805 .082
Chest computed
 tomography
1.72% 1.18% 1.46 1.305–1.634 <.001