Mean age (years) (min-max) | 58.6 (24-86) | 63.1 (24-85) | 0.310 |
Disease duration before surgery (years) (min-max) | 16.3 (1-40) | 13.3 (3-33) | 0.289 |
Anti-CCP positive (%) | 75 | 100 | 0.57 |
Extraarticular involvement (%) | 17.2 | 44.4 | 0.068 |
Ever smoking (%) | 26.8 | 14.3 | 0.674 |
Chronic lung disease (%) | 6.7 | 0 | 1 |
Cardiac insufficiency (%) | 6.7 | 14.2 | 0.395 |
Diabetes (%) | 8.1 | 0 | 1 |
Previous severe, chronic or recurrent infection (%) | 39.5 | 14.3 | 0.252 |
HypoIgG (IgG<6 g/l) before RTX (%) | 7.1 | 20.1 | 0.370 |
Concomitant DMARDs (%) | 64.1 | 66.6 | 1 |
Corticosteroids dosage at time of surgery (mg/d) (min-max) | 11.4 (0.5-60) | 9.9 (7-12.5) | 0.902 |
Duration between surgery-last infusion (months) (min-max) | 6.54 (0.45-12) | 6.59 (3.7-12) | 0.997 |
Orthopaedic surgery (%) | 66.4 | 77.7 | 0.718 |
Joint arthroplasty (%) | 28.2 | 11.1 | 0.235 |
Spine surgery (%) | 3.0 | 22.2 | 0.048 |