Low levels of salicylic acid and salicyluric acid are present in synovial fluid of patients taking aspirin at the time of knee arthroplasty surgery

Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2020 Sep;47(9):1635-1637. doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.13333. Epub 2020 May 29.

Damon P Eisen^{1

2}, Peter McEwen³, Regina Hansen³, Saurabh Pandey⁴, Steven C Wallis⁴, Jason A Roberts^{4

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¹ The Townsville Hospital and Health Service, Douglas, Qld, Australia.
² College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Qld, Australia.
³ Orthopaedics Research Institute of Queensland, Townsville, Qld, Australia.
⁴ University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
⁵ Centre for Translational Anti-Infective Pharmacodynamics, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Qld, Australia.
⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Pharmacy Department, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
⁷ Division of Anaesthesiology Critical Care Emergency and Pain Medicine, Nîmes University Hospital, University of Montpellier, Nîmes, France.

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Keywords: arthroplasty; aspirin; infection; levels; prevention.

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