New drugs, new guidelines: ACR/AAHKS update treatment recommendations in joint replacement
Joint replacement in patients with inflammatory arthritis is often beset with pitfalls like disease flares and infectious complications, and up until recently, the emergence new treatments were rendering the current guidelines outdated. That all changed in February, when the American College of Rheumatology and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) updated their “Guideline for the Perioperative Management of Antirheumatic Medication in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Elective Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty."
Source: Healio