Increased Issues With Infections After THR?

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I am with you the orthopedist knows the risks to joints the gastric

guys don't. They are dealing with **** so go figure out that one, what would

I do ?? take an antibiotic every time, as if you get an infection its 3-6

months of sheer hell. So I am with you I will take them.

-- Increased Issues With Infections After

THR?

> Joint Replacement

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> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 4:01 PM

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> I was told by my doctor yesterday that after a THR one needed to be far

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> careful about infections than before. I wonder:

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> (a) Is this only in the near term after surgery or is this basically for

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> rest of one's life after the THR?

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> ( Why is this so?

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> Thanks

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