While TC is a reversible condition with low rates of complications and recurrence at follow up it is, as demonstrated in our cohort, associated with significant in-hospital morbidity in a proportion of patients.
Ÿ High clinical suspicion along with prompt resuscitation is adequate enough for a general surgeon to undertake a quick therapeutic intervention that would buy time until definite treatment is made available, even in the settings of only preliminary positive investigations.
In a study of this number of patients, of the six biomarkers tested, only platelet CD40 ligand was found to have a probable association with peri-operative cardiac events in hip and knee arthroplasty.
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