Evaluation and Management of Periprosthetic Joint Infection-an International, Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Controversies still exist regarding the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in patients with prosthetic joint infections (PJI).

Questions/purposes

How effective are preoperative and intraoperative cultures in isolating organisms and how do these culture results compare to one another? What are the results of surgical treatment of PJI in the hip and knee in an international, tertiary referral center cohort?

Patients and methods

One hundred sixteen patients (N = 59 hip PJI, N = 57 knee PJI) were recruited prospectively to registries at three international, tertiary referral centers between December 2008 to November 2011. Retrospective review of prospective registry data including demographics, microbiology results, and operative reports was performe

SUBMITTER: Shanmugasundaram S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903947 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature