TABLE II.
Clinical Outcomes and Complications
| Hip Procedures | Knee Procedures | |||||
| Hemophilia Cohort (N = 31) | Control Cohort (N = 943) | P Value* | Hemophilia Cohort (N = 87) | Control Cohort (N = 2,868) | P Value* | |
| Thromboembolic complications (%) | ||||||
| Venous thromboembolism | 0 | 0.64 | 1.000 | 1.15 | 0.98 | 0.581 |
| Acute coronary syndrome (STEMI/NSTEMI/UA†) | 0 | 0.95 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.28 | 1.000 |
| Acute ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack | 0 | 0.21 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.24 | 1.000 |
| Bleeding (%) | ||||||
| Bleeding complications | 38.71 | 16.12 | 0.003 | 19.54 | 13.95 | 0.158 |
| Intracerebral hemorrhage | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0.03 | 1.000 |
| Transfusion of red blood cells | 19.35 | 7.74 | 0.034 | 12.64 | 4.05 | 0.001 |
| Infection (%) | ||||||
| Surgical site infection | 0 | 0.21 | 1.000 | 8.05 | 1.12 | <0.001 |
| Other infection | 6.45 | 2.12 | 0.153 | 2.30 | 1.32 | 0.331 |
| Discharge disposition (%) | 0.442 | <0.001 | ||||
| Home | 70.97 | 76.25 | 67.82 | 64.19 | ||
| Short-term care facility | 16.13 | 8.70 | 29.89 | 15.27 | ||
| Long-term care facility | 12.90 | 14.42 | 1.15 | 19.56 | ||
| Other | 0 | 0.42 | 1.15 | 0.84 | ||
| Hospice | 0 | 0.11 | 0 | 0.03 | ||
| Died in hospital | 0 | 0.11 | 0 | 0.10 | ||
| Median hospital length of stay (IQR)‡ (days) | 6 (5) | 3 (1) | <0.001 | 5 (4) | 3 (2) | <0.001 |
| Unplanned 30-day readmission (%) | <0.001 | 0.018 | ||||
| No | 77.42 | 95.86 | 89.66 | 95.54 | ||
| Yes | 22.58 | 4.14 | 10.34 | 4.46 | ||
Fisher exact test.
STEMI = ST-elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI = non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, and UA = unstable angina.
After excluding 4 controls who died in the hospital.