Atopic dermatitis is a novel demographic risk factor for surgical site infection after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

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Risk factors for postoperative surgical site infections after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…High heterogeneity was found in the results. The sensitivity analysis showed that the study of Kawata et al 15 was the main source of the heterogeneity; removing this study reduced the I 2 to 38%, and the pooled analysis of the remaining studies still showed significant differences (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.37 to 1.97, p<0.00001). The main source of heterogeneity in this study might be the short follow-up time, as patients were only observed during hospitalisation.…”

“…Following the review of the titles and abstracts, 41 studies were appropriate and were eligible for potential inclusion. After full text review, 23 studies9–16 24–38 were finally included (figure 1).…”

“…Roecker et al 10 found that patient age <40 years was a risk factor for surgical site infections after ACLR. Kawata et al 15 found that young age (≤19 years) was also a risk factor. Murphy et al 9 believed that patient age ≥20 years was a risk factor for postoperative surgical site infections.…”

“…There is some evidence for specific risk factors for surgical site infections following ACLR, including male sex, 9 tobacco use, 10 diabetes, 11 inpatient ACLR, 12 and professional athletes 13 ; however, other studies have reported conflicting results. [14][15][16] Given these controversial results and the small sample size of several studies, a meta-analysis is necessary to comprehensively evaluate the current findings. To our knowledge, the potential risk factors for surgical site infections after ACLR have never been systematically integrated.…”

Prevention of Suppurative Knee Arthritis after Knee Ligament Reconstructive Surgery

“…Despite there being many reports on the surgical procedure for knee ligament reconstruction, Original especially the anterior cruciate ligament determination of burr hole positions, selection of tendon grafts, and so on [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] , there have been few reports on infection prevention [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and no reports on the sterilization of reconstruction materials using povidone-iodine during the surgical procedure. We have previously reported on the surgical procedure and outcomes of knee ligament reconstruction 23 .…”