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 5 Comparison of results.

	A group vs. B group	A group vs. C group	B group vs. C group
Length of incision	0.462	0.7875	0.371



Postoperative albumin(g/L)	0.468	0.911	0.539
Postoperative hemoglobin(g/L)	0.189^*	0.739^*	0.679^*
	^**	0.022^**	0.573^**
	^**	^**	0.347^**
Postoperative clinical	0.446^*	0.650^*	0.953^*
Postoperative functional	0.861^*	0.970^*	0.741^*
Postoperative total	0.975^*	0.578^*	0.343^*
^* Tambane’s T2; ^** chi-square test, corrected inspection level α’=0.0125, The differences were statistically significant when P

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