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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 100-B, Issue SUPP_17 | Pages 92 - 92
1 Dec 2018
Wouthuyzen-Bakker M Sebillotte M Lomas J Taylor A Palomares EB Murillo O Parvizi J Shohat N Reinoso JC Sánchez RE Fernandez-Sampedro M Senneville E Huotari K Allende JB Garcia-Cañete J Lora-Tamayo J Ferrari MC Vaznaisiene D Yusuf E Aboltins C Trebse R Salles M Benito N Vila A Del Toro MD Kramer T Petershof S Diaz-Brito V Tufan ZK Sanchez M Arvieux C Soriano A
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Aim

Debridement, antibiotics and implant retention (DAIR) is the recommended treatment for all acute prosthetic joint infections (PJI). However, the efficacy of DAIR and identification of risk factors for failure in patients with late acute PJI, is not well described.

Method

Patients diagnosed with late acute PJI between 2005 and 2015 were retrospectively evaluated. Late acute PJI was defined as the development of acute symptoms (≤ 3 weeks) occurring ≥ 3 months after arthroplasty. Failure was defined as: i) the need for implant removal, ii) infection related death, iii) the need for suppressive antibiotic therapy due to persistent signs of infection and/or iv) relapse or reinfection during follow-up.


The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 95-B, Issue 7 | Pages 1001 - 1006
1 Jul 2013
Esteban J Alvarez-Alvarez B Blanco A Fernández-Roblas R Gadea I Garcia-Cañete J Sandoval E Valdazo M

We have designed a prospective study to evaluate the usefulness of prolonged incubation of cultures from sonicated orthopaedic implants. During the study period 124 implants from 113 patients were processed (22 osteosynthetic implants, 46 hip prostheses, 54 knee prostheses, and two shoulder prostheses). Of these, 70 patients had clinical infection; 32 had received antibiotics at least seven days before removal of the implant. A total of 54 patients had sonicated samples that produced positive cultures (including four patients without infection). All of them were positive in the first seven days of incubation. No differences were found regarding previous antibiotic treatment when analysing colony counts or days of incubation in the case of a positive result. In our experience, extending incubation of the samples to 14 days does not add more positive results for sonicated orthopaedic implants (hip and knee prosthesis and osteosynthesis implants) compared with a conventional seven-day incubation period.

Cite this article: Bone Joint J 2013;95-B:1001–6.