ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the effectiveness of oral tranexamic acid in total knee and hip arthroplasty. Methods:PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, SinoMed, CNKI and Wanfang Data were electronically searched to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non RCTs of oral versus intravenous tranexamic acid in total knee and hip arthroplasty from inception to April, 2019. Two researchers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies, then, Meta analysis was performed by RevMan 5.3.5 software. Results:5 RCTs and 2 non RCTs involving 3 652 patients were included. The results of Meta analysis showed that the postoperative hemoglobin decline (mg·ml-1) (WMD=0.15, 95%CI 0.05 to 0.26, P=0.004) and total blood loss (ml) (WMD=84.73, 95%CI 34.01 to 135.44, P=0.001) in the oral tranexamic acid group were higher than that in the intravenous tranexamic acid group, and there were no significant differences regarding transfusion rate (RR=0.74, 95%CI 0.49 to 1.12, P=0.16), or the occurence rate of deep vein thrombosis related complication (OR=0.79, 95%CI 0.32 to 1.94, P=0.60) between the two groups. Conclusion:Oral tranexamic acid shows comparable efficacy to that of the intravenous forms after total knee and hip arthroplasty. Due to limited quality and quantity of the included studies, more high quality studies are needed to verify above conclusion. |