Aspirin alone may prevent venous thromboembolic events after TJA
Taking aspirin alone after total joint arthroplasty may be a noninferior alternative for preventing venous thromboembolism compared with rivaroxaban then aspirin, according to results.
“The message of the safety and efficacy of aspirin alone in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty is a very reasonable one, and now we have evidence to back that up,” Sudeep Shivakumar, MD, a hematologist in the division of hematology and hematologic oncology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, told Healio. “There was no increase in bleeding events, and there was no difference in deaths. Our event rates overall were low.”
