Use of serotonergic antidepressants and perioperative complications in patients undergoing lower limb arthroplasty: Systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRIs) are commonly utilised antidepressants among populations in Western countries; however, their use has been linked to adverse effects and postoperative complications. This systematic review assessed the risk of both early and late perioperative complications in SRIs users undergoing elective total hip arthroplasty (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA) compared to non-users. This study adhered to the 2020 PRISMA guidelines. A comprehensive search of PubMed, Science Direct/Scopus, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was conducted from inception until January 2025. Comparative studies examining SRI users and non-users undergoing elective THA or TKA that addressed at least one postoperative outcome (blood loss, postoperative haemoglobin reduction, transfusion rate, length of stay, readmission and revision rate) were included. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was employed to evaluate the quality of the included studies. A meta-analysis was performed to assess the risk of transfusion, utilising a random-effects model. Ten comparative cohort studies, including two prospective and eight retrospective studies, were included in this analysis, involving 2,098,833 patients who underwent either elective THA or TKA. Among these patients, 418,527 were using SRIs during the perioperative period, with a mean age of 65.2 years. Our meta-analysis revealed an odds ratio of 1.78 (95 % CI, 1.11, 2.83; p = 0.02) concerning the blood transfusion rate in patients utilising SRIs, although it was characterised by considerable heterogeneity (I 2 = 97 %). The findings regarding length of stay, readmission rate, and revision rate were inconclusive. The use of SRIs in patients undergoing elective THA and TKA may be linked to a slightly increased risk of bleeding and need for blood transfusion. However, considering the potential benefits of these medications for this patient group, it remains uncertain whether discontinuing them during the perioperative period is advisable. More high-quality studies are required to establish an etiological relationship.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".