Update: Unexplained deaths following knee surgery--Minnesota, 2001.
Since November 13, 2001, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), in collaboration with CDC, has been conducting an investigation of three patients who died unexpectedly within 1 week following knee surgery. Patient 1 had received a knee osteochondral allograft, and patients 2 and 3 had undergone total knee replacement surgery. Epidemiologic and microbiologic investigations have not linked the deaths of the three patients.
D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000382:microbiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D019737:Transplants / Q000382:microbiology