The role of the primary care physician in early diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection [PDF]
Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2017 Hip and knee replacement is a common procedure in the treatment of advanced arthropathy. It relieves pain and restores joint function. That is why the number of arthroplasties is continuously increasing.
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Combinational Periprosthetic Hip Joint Infection and Fracture: A Two-Stage Revision with Long Femoral Stem Spacers [PDF]
Malaysian Orthopaedic JournalIntroduction: Periprosthetic joint infection combined with periprosthetic fracture rarely occurs simultaneously. Once all components of the periprosthetic joint infection were removed, antibiotic spacers were placed.
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Identification of periprosthetic joint infection after total hip arthroplasty [PDF]
Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2015 Although total hip arthroplasty (THA) is accepted as one of the most successful surgical procedures in orthopaedic surgery, periprosthetic joint infection after THA continues to be one of the most devastating complications. However, accurate preoperative
Kyung-Jae Lee, Stuart B. Goodman
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Falsarthrobacter nasiphocae periprosthetic joint infection
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 We report the isolation of a rare Gram-positive coccobacillary bacterium from synovial fluids of a patient with periprosthetic joint infection on three occasions over an 8-month period.
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Treatment Outcomes of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in HIV-positive Patients [PDF]
Travmatologiâ i Ortopediâ Rossii, 2019 Relevance. There is a limited number of publications reporting outcomes of primary large joint arthroplasty in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
A. S. Tryapichnikov +5 more
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Lyme periprosthetic joint infection in total knee arthroplasty
Arthroplasty Today, 2018 Lyme arthritis, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is a common tick-borne illness in New England and the upper Midwest.
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 Joint arthroplasty is an option for end-stage septic arthritis due to joint infection after effective control of infection. However, complications such as osteolysis and aseptic loosening can arise afterwards due to wear and tear caused by high joint ...
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Combined bone scintigraphy with 99mTc-MDP and 99mTc-ciprofloxacin in differentiation of hip and knee prosthesis aseptic loosening and infection: A preliminary study [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Although the number of new primary implantation of hip and knee prostheses every year increases, the rate of failed arthroplasty is nearly the same.
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Favourable outcomes of repeat one-stage exchange for periprosthetic joint infection of the hip. [PDF]
, 2022 AIMS One-stage exchange for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in total hip arthroplasty (THA) is gaining popularity. The outcome for a repeat one-stage revision THA after a failed one-stage exchange for infection remains unknown.
Busch, Sophia-Marlene +6 more
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Sensitivities, specificities, and predictive values of microbiological culture techniques for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection [PDF]
, 2014 Background. Identifying the microorganism in a prosthetic joint infection is the key to appropriately targeting antimicrobial treatment. Despite the availability of various techniques, no single test is considered the definitive gold standard. Aim.
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