The role of the primary care physician in early diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection
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.
Jerzy Białecki +3 more
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A rare case of invasive non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae spondylodiscitis and periprosthetic joint infection [PDF]
A non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) was responsible for an invasive infection including bacteremia, spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess, and periprosthetic hip infection in a 79-year-old woman, triggered by a superinfected ethmo-orbital ...
K. Sermet +9 more
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Diagnosis of Metal Hypersensitivity in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report [PDF]
Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) reactions are considered infrequent complications in arthroplasty, but have been recognized to be associated with devastating morbidity and substantial decrease in quality of life of affected patients.
Geissler, Sven +4 more
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Outcome of bilateral periprosthetic hip infection management
Introduction Infection is a devastating complication after joint arthroplasty. In most cases of purulent infection, surgeons are forced to perform revision of the artificial joint.
Nikolai M. Kliushin +5 more
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Periprosthetic joint infection remains a major complication in arthroplasty. We present the first description of a case of periprosthetic joint infection with Actinomyces radingae, microorganism that is mostly found on the skin of the upper body and ...
Hannes Kuttner, MD +4 more
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Two-stage arthrodesis of the ankle joint in the treatment of periprosthetic infection [PDF]
Introduction The main reasons for arthroplasty of the ankle joint are osteoarthritis in the terminal stage (posttraumatic or idiopathic), purulent arthritis and oncology.
Nikolai M. Kliushin, Artem M. Ermakov
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Outcomes of total hip arthroplasty, as a salvage procedure, following failed internal fixation of intracapsular fractures of the femoral neck: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
AIMS: The optimal management of intracapsular fractures of the femoral neck in independently mobile patients remains open to debate. Successful fixation obviates the limitations of arthroplasty for this group of patients.
Archibeck MJ +21 more
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Aims This study aimed to evaluate the BioFire Joint Infection (JI) Panel in cases of hip and knee periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) where conventional microbiology is unclear, and to assess its role as a complementary intraoperative diagnostic tool ...
Susana Gardete-Hartmann +10 more
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Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a dreadful complication of joint replacement. Noninvasive identification of infectious pathogens has been traditionnally limited to culture-based testing of synovial fluid which has poor sensitivity.
L. Flurin +8 more
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Combinational Periprosthetic Hip Joint Infection and Fracture: A Two-Stage Revision with Long Femoral Stem Spacers [PDF]
Introduction: Periprosthetic joint infection combined with periprosthetic fracture rarely occurs simultaneously. Once all components of the periprosthetic joint infection were removed, antibiotic spacers were placed.
Duong TV +5 more
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