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Prosthetic Joint Infection due to Histoplasma capsulatum in a Patient from Trinidad: Workup, Pathology, and Treatment

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2022
Histoplasma capsulatum is a rarely reported cause of prosthetic joint infections. This current case report is of a patient from Trinidad, with a history of a right total knee replacement (TKR), who underwent a successful two-stage revision due to a ...
James Satalich, Julie Reznicek, Alexandra Bryson, Prayag Pershad, Nicholas Hooper, Jibanananda Satpathy   +5 more
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Serum biomarkers in periprosthetic joint infections

Bone & Joint Research, 2018
Objectives The diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is difficult and requires a battery of tests and clinical findings. The purpose of this review is to summarize all current evidence for common and new serum biomarkers utilized in the diagnosis of PJI.
Carlos A. Higuera, Alison K. Klika, Anas Saleh, Jaiben George, Mhamad Faour   +4 more
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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]

, 2016
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, Blomfeldt R, Broderick JM, Burns PB, Charnley J, Flugsrud GB, Franzén H, Garden RS, Harris WH, Hunt SM, Katz S, McKinley JC, Mehlhoff T, Moher D, Neander G, Nilsson LT, Nilsson LT, Oztürkmen Y, Schmidt AH, Winemaker M, Yang J, Zhang X   +21 more
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Single-stage revision for chronic periprosthetic joint infection after knee and hip arthroplasties: indications and treatments

Arthroplasty, 2023
Single-stage revision for chronic periprosthetic joint infection has been introduced 40 years ago. This option is gaining more and more attention as well as popularity.
Wenbo Mu, Baochao Ji, Li Cao
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Culture-negative periprosthetic joint infections

EFORT Open Reviews, 2019
Culture-negative periprosthetic joint infections (CN-PJI) pose a significant challenge in terms of diagnosis and management. The reported incidence of CN-PJI is reported to be between 7% and 15%. Fungi and mycobacterium are thought to be responsible for over 85% of such cases with more fastidious bacteria accounting for the rest.
Richard Westerman, Jeya Palan, Ciaran Nolan, Richard King, Kostas Sarantos, Pedro Foguet   +5 more
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Periprosthetic Joint Infection: Editorial Comment [PDF]

Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research, 2011
Total joint arthroplasty has indeed come a long way. From the days when this surgery was only for elderly and mostly sedentary individuals, it is now offered to all ages and at times to extremely active patients. The widespread use of joint replacement is mostly due to its unparalleled success.
Javad Parvizi, Craig J. Della Valle
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The fate of the unexpected positive intraoperative cultures after revision total knee arthroplasty [PDF]

, 2007
Of a consecutive series of 692 revision total knees at 3 centers, intraoperative cultures were unexpectedly found to be positive in 41 cases (5.9%).
Aggarwal, Ajay, Barrack, Robert L., Burnett, R. Stephen J., Clohisy, John C., Ghanem, Elie, Parvizi, Javad, Sharkey, Peter   +6 more
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Development of a periprosthetic joint infection by Abiotrophia defectiva years after total knee arthroplasty

Arthroplasty Today, 2019
A 74-year-old male presented with acute right knee pain and inability to ambulate. The patient had a total knee arthroplasty, previously complicated by a periprosthetic femur fracture requiring surgical fixation and subsequent methicillin-resistant ...
Trevor R. Tooley, BS, Matthew P. Siljander, MD, Michael Hubers, MD   +2 more
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Difficulty of diagnostic accuracy of periprosthetic joint infection: a retrospective analysis of revision surgery of total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty in a tertiary hospital

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Diagnostic accuracy of periprosthetic joint infection still remains controversial and an unsolved problem with respect to clinical signs and laboratory measures.
Alexander Herbert Andres, Juliette-Afi Chaold-Lösing, Hendrik Bulok, Roland Ernst Willburger   +3 more
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Treatment Outcomes of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in HIV-positive Patients

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, A. M. Ermakov, N. M. Klyushin, Yu. V. Ababkov, A. B. Stepanayn, A. N. Koyushkov   +5 more
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