Are There Lower Complication Rates with Bidirectional Barbed Suture in Total Knee Arthroplasty Incision Closure? A Randomized Clinical Trial

05 August 2020 : Clinical Research

Shuo Feng^1ABCDE, Ye Zhang^1ABCDE, Feng Zhang^2CE, Zhi Yang^1AC, Xiang-Yang Chen^1ADEF*, Guo-Chun Zha^1ADEF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.922783

Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e922783

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Table 1 Patient demographics of three groups.

	A group	B group	C group	P
Gender				0.809
Male	53 (27.5%)	49 (25.1%)	54 (27.8%)
Female	140 (72.5%)	146 (74.9%)	140 (72.2%)
Age (years)	64.8±8.7	66.0±9.2	65.0±8.7	0.309
BMI (kg/m)	24.1±2.7	24.4±2.9	24.0±2.7	0.500
Preoperative hemoglobin (g/L)	133.9±9.3	135.1±9.7	133.8±8.3	0.280
Preoperative albumin (g/L)	39.5±1.7	39.6±1.7	39.4±1.4	0.395^*
Diabetes	11 (5.7%)	13 (6.7%)	12 (6.2%)	0.925
Renal insufficiency	1 (0.5%)	1 (0.5%)	2 (1.0%)	0.812
Immune dysfunction	1 (0.5%)	0	1 (0.5%)	0.602
Smoking	37 (19.2%)	34 (17.4%)	41 (21.1%)	0.636
^* Welch’s ANOVA.

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