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Bacteriophage Therapy for Clinical Biofilm Infections: Parameters That Influence Treatment Protocols and Current Treatment Approaches

Antibiotics, 2020
Biofilm infections are extremely difficult to treat, which is secondary to the inability of conventional antibiotics to eradicate biofilms. Consequently, current definitive treatment of biofilm infections requires complete removal of the infected ...
James B. Doub
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Case Series of Silver Oxide–Containing Hydroxyapatite Coating in Antibacterial Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty: Clinical Results of 50 Cases at 5-Year Follow-Up

Arthroplasty Today, 2023
Background: Prosthetic joint infection, which is caused by implant treatment, is a severe complication. Consequently, silver-containing hydroxyapatite (Ag-HA)-coated implants have been developed to prevent prosthetic joint infection by combining Ag with ...
Shunsuke Kawano, MD, PhD, Masaya Ueno, MD, PhD, Masanori Fujii, MD, PhD, Daisuke Mawatari, MD, Masaaki Mawatari, MD, PhD   +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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MOBILE and the provision of total joint replacement [PDF]

, 2008
Modern joint replacements have been available for 45 years, but we still do not have clear indications for these interventions, and we do not know how to optimize the outcome for patients who agree to have them done.
Bandura A., Bellamy N, Beth Pollard, Diane Dixon, Dieppe P, Dixon D., Havelin LI., Insall JN, Jeremy Horwood, Marie Johnston, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence., Paul Dieppe, Pollard B, Pollard B., Powell R., Sanders C., World Health Organization.   +16 more
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Prosthetic rehabilitation of an ocular defect with post-enucleation socket syndrome: A case report

Saudi Dental Journal, 2014
Ocular trauma can be caused by road traffic accidents, falls, assaults, or work-related accidents. Enucleation is often indicated after ocular injury or for the treatment of intraocular tumors, severe ocular infections, and painful blind eyes ...
Pokpong Amornvit, Dinesh Rokaya, Binit Shrestha, Theerathavaj Srithavaj   +3 more
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The value of conventional radiographs for diagnosing internal fixation-associated infection

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background The aim of the study is to  assess the diagnostic value of preoperative conventional radiographs for diagnosing infection associated with internal fixation devices.
Cheng Li, Nora Renz, Andrej Trampuz, Cristina Ojeda-Thies   +3 more
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Treatment of a Gustilo-Anderson type II open tibia shaft fracture with an ultrathin silver plasma-coated plate: A case report

Trauma Case Reports, 2022
The treatment of open tibia fractures with plate fixation bears a high risk for the development of a fracture-related infection. Here we present a case of an 80-year-old female with a Gustilo-Anderson type II open distal tibial shaft fracture with an ...
Volker Alt, Christian Pfeifer, Markus Rupp, Nike Walter   +3 more
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The Temporal Impact of Prosthesis Implantation and Semi‐Quantitative Criteria on the Diagnostic Efficacy of Triple‐Phase Bone Scanning for Periprosthetic Joint Infection

Orthopaedic Surgery, 2022
Objective To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of triple‐phase bone scanning and the temporal impact of prosthesis implantation on the diagnostic efficacy of triple‐phase bone scanning for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI).
Feiyang Zhang, Chentian Shen, Jinlong Yu, Xiaohua Chen, Qiaojie Wang, Zhenkui Sun, Hao Shen   +6 more
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Additional file 1 of Reliability of circulating fibrinogen in the diagnosis of prosthesis-related infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

, 2021
Additional file 1. Detailed search strategy.
Zhu, Xingyang, Zhang, Haitao, Sun, Xiaobo, Li, Yijin, Li, Jiahao, Zeng, Yuqing, Deng, Peng, Qi, Xinyu, Chen, Jinlun, Ye, Pengcheng, Feng, Wenjun, Li, Jie, Zeng, Jianchun, Zeng, Yirong   +13 more
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Early Complications After Radical Operations in Breast Cancer Patients [PDF]

, 2020
Breast cancer is one of the most common Malignancies in women. In many cases, a major component of complex treatment for breast cancer is surgery - radical mastectomy or radical breast resection.The aim of the work – to investigate the frequency and ...
Baranova, A. (Anna), Vinnyk, Y. (Yuri), Vlasenko, V. (Vadym)   +2 more
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