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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 103-B, Issue SUPP_15 | Pages 64 - 64
1 Dec 2021
SHOULD ALL PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH A CULTURE-NEGATIVE PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION BE TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS? A MULTICENTRE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Sloten MV Gómez-Junyent J Ferry T Nicolò R Petersdorf S Lange J Corona P Abreu M Borens O Zlatian OM Soundarrajan D Rajasekaran S Wouthuyzen-Bakker M
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Aim

To analyse the prevalence of culture negative periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) when adequate culture techniques are applied, and to evaluate the outcome of patients who were treated with antibiotics for a culture negative PJI versus those in whom treatment was withheld.

Method

A multicenter observational study in which acute and chronic PJIs diagnosed between 2013 and 2018 were analyzed. Culture negative PJIs were diagnosed according to the MSIS, ICM and EBJIS definitions.