SAN DIEGO — Patients with diabetes mellitus who undergo total hip arthroplasty demonstrate an increased risk for health care use, including increased length of stay, and acute renal failure, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2023.“Diabetes is a...
SAN DIEGO — Patients with diabetes mellitus who undergo total hip arthroplasty demonstrate an increased risk for health care use, including increased length of stay, and acute renal failure, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2023.
“Diabetes is a common comorbidity in people who undergo total joint replacement and one of the issues diabetics who are undergoing knee and hip replacement have is the risk of infection,” Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told attendees. “One of the issues that has come up is that even the systematic