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Knee Arthroplasty

Fibrin Sealant Reduces Postoperative Blood Loss

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, December 9th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a sealant containing fibrin, the protein that constitutes blood clots, can safely reduce blood loss after surgical knee repair.

Dr. Gwo-Jaw Wang and colleagues at the University of Virginia's Tissue Adhesive Center in Charlottesville, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the Hughston Sports Medicine Clinic in Columbus, Georgia, and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, evaluated the "hemostatic efficacy of fibrin sealant...[in] patients undergoing unilateral primary total knee arthroplasty with cement."

Fibrin sealant use helped...

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