Recent UK national guidelines advocate using a combination of mechanical and pharmacological VTE prophylaxis in patients undergoing lower limb arthroplasty but do not recommend one particular pharmacotherapy over another. We compared the results from our two series of patients: one treated with clexane and the other treated with rivaroxaban, with respect to average length of stay, postoperative wound leakage, readmission within 30 days of surgery and re-do surgeryIntroduction
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