A group of physicians in Canada examined a national database of more than 58,000 hip and knee replacement surgeries and published their results in The Journal of Arthroplasty. Brad Tritle reports that infection was the most common reason for revision knee surgery in the year following surgery, and that diabetic patients had a higher rate of readmission for infection.

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