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Silicon breast implants’ texture affecting bacterial biofilm formation [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2022
Introduction/Objective. The most important etiologic factors for both, capsular contracture (CC) and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is subclinical infection, defined as a response of an organism on presence of biofilm
Marinković Marija, Nikolić Jelena, Gusman Vera, Jovanović Mladen, Rašović Predrag   +4 more
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A systematic review of penile prosthesis infection and meta-analysis of diabetes mellitus role

BMC Urology, 2021
Background Infection is the most feared complication of a penile prosthesis. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is widely known to increase the risk of several infections, but its role in the penile prosthesis is still controversial.
Lucas Mira Gon, Caio César Citatini de Campos, Brunno Raphael Iamashita Voris, Luís Augusto Passeri, Adriano Fregonesi, Cássio Luís Zanettini Riccetto   +5 more
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Impact of rifampicin dose in bone and joint prosthetic device infections due to Staphylococcus spp: a retrospective single-center study in France

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Prosthetic joint infections (PJI) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality burden worldwide. While surgical management is well defined, rifampicin (RIF) dose remains controversial.
M. Tonnelier, A. Bouras, C. Joseph, Y. El Samad, B. Brunschweiler, J.-L. Schmit, C. Mabille, J-P Lanoix   +7 more
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Influence of biomaterials on scintigraphic diagnosis of periprosthetic infections. Ceftizoxime-99m technetium model [PDF]

Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2018
Purpose: To compare the influence of two metallic implants in the diagnosis of periprosthetic infection using 99m technetium-labeled ceftizoxime. Methods: Twenty rats were randomly divided into four groups, which received sterile and contaminated ...
Luiz Eduardo Moreira Teixeira, Bruno Jannotti Pádua, André Moreira Castilho, Ivana Duval de Araújo, Marco Antônio Percope de Andrade, Valbert Nascimento Cardoso, Simone Odília Diniz, Jefferson Soares Leal, Isabella Kuniko Takenaka   +8 more
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Transcriptomic analysis of Streptococcus agalactiae periprosthetic joint infection

MicrobiologyOpen, 2021
Although Streptococcus agalactiae periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is not as prevalent as staphylococcal PJI, invasive S. agalactiae infection is not uncommon. Here, RNA‐seq was used to perform transcriptomic analysis of S. agalactiae PJI using fluid
Hye‐Kyung Cho, Thao Masters, Kerryl E. Greenwood‐Quaintance, Stephen Johnson, Patricio R. Jeraldo, Nicholas Chia, Meng Pu, Matthew P. Abdel, Robin Patel   +8 more
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Mixed bacterial-fungal infection following total hip arthroplasty: A case report

Chinese Journal of Traumatology, 2022
Prosthetic infection is one of the severe postoperative complications of arthroplasty. Mixed bacterial-fungal prosthetic infection is rare but can be disastrous.
Yang-Jing Lin, Tiao Su, Liu Yang, Guang-Xing Chen   +3 more
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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in vascular surgery patients

Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, 2022
INTRODUCTION: Surgical site infections are associated with devastating consequences in vascular surgery patients but the data on Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection among those remains scant and conflicting.
Rita Carreira Garcia, Frederico Bastos Gonçalves, Teresa Garcia, Rita Soares Ferreira, Joana Catarino, Isabel Vieira, Ricardo Correia, Ana Rita Bento, Fábio Pais, Tiago Ribeiro, Joana Cardoso, Maria Emília Ferreira   +11 more
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Prosthesis infections after orthopedic joint replacement: the possible role of bacterial biofilms

Orthopedic Reviews, 2013
Prosthesis-related infection is a serious complication for patients after orthopedic joint replacement, which is currently difficult to treat with antibiotic therapy. Consequently, in most cases, removal of the infected prosthesis is the only solution to
Zhijun Song, Lotte Borgwardt, Niels Høiby, Hong Wu, Torben Sandberg Sørensen, Arne Borgwardt   +5 more
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Early periprosthetic infection: dilution, jet dilution or local antibiotics. Which way to go? A meta-analysis on 575 patients

GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW, 2020
Objective: Periprosthetic infections (PPI) after total hip and total knee arthroplasty (THA, TKA) are subdivided into early and late infections. Early PPIs are defined as the occurrence of infection within 6 weeks following the primary surgery.
Vees, Tilman, Hofmann, Gunther O.
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Infection After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Prospective Study of the Addition of Antibiotics to Bone Cement

Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2021
Objective The present prospective, randomized and controlled study was conducted with 286 patients submitted to primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with the objective of evaluating the efficacy of the addition of antibiotics to bone cement as a way to ...
Hugo Alexandre de Araujo Barros Cobra, Alan de Paula Mozella, Pedro José Labronici, Amanda S. Cavalcanti, João Antonio Matheus Guimarães   +4 more
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