Aims. The aim of this study was to identify the incidence of positive
cultures during the second stage of a two-stage revision arthroplasty
and to analyse the association between positive cultures and an
infection-free outcome. Patients and Methods. This single-centre retrospective review of prospectively collected
data included patients with a periprosthetic joint
The purpose of this study was to compare the
diagnostic accuracy for the detection of
Necrotising soft-tissue
We reviewed systematically the published evidence on the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis for the reduction of wound
We examined the incidence of
1. A case of late
Between July 1986 and August 1996, we performed 32 total knee arthroplasties (TKA) on 32 patients with partially or completely ankylosed knees secondary to
We examined patient and surgical factors associated
with deep surgical site
We wished to estimate the incidence of surgical-site
Aims. The purpose of this study was to validate the diagnosis of periprosthetic
joint
The management and outcome of treatment in 42 patients (49 shoulders) with an infected shoulder prosthesis was reviewed in a retrospective multicentre study of 2343 prostheses. The factors which were analysed included the primary diagnosis, the delay between the diagnosis of
Sixty-eight patients suffering deep
It has been proposed that intervertebral disc degeneration might be caused by low-grade
We present a case of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI)
The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of screening and successful treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonisation in elective orthopaedic patients on the subsequent risk of developing a surgical site
We have carried out in 24 patients, a two-stage revision arthroplasty of the hip for
Exchange operation is recommended as the treatment of choice for most deep
1. Six cases of
To characterize the intracellular penetration of osteoblasts and osteoclasts by methicillin-resistant Time-lapse confocal microscopy was used to analyze the interaction of MRSA strain USA300 with primary murine osteoblasts and osteoclasts. The effects of early and delayed antibiotic treatments on intracellular and extracellular bacterial colony formation and cell death were quantified. We tested the effects of cefazolin, gentamicin, vancomycin, tetracycline, rifampicin, and ampicillin, as well as agents used in surgical preparation and irrigation.Aims
Methods
Immunosuppression following intra-articular injections of steroid into the hip may interfere with asepsis in a subsequent total hip arthroplasty (THA). We have undertaken a retrospective, matched, cohort study of infective complications after THA, in 40 patients who had received such an injection and 40 who had not. In the injection group there were five revisions, four of which were for deep