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
