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JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 469-472Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE INC MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2013.07.021
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hip arthroplasty; knee arthroplasty; complication; infection
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Forty consecutive patients (42 joints; 22 TKA, 20 THA) treated for acute hematogenous infections were reviewed. All patients underwent irrigation and debridement and exchange of the modular components. At a mean of 56 months (range, 25-124 months) recurrent infection, requiring surgery, developed in 9 of the 42 joints (21%); 8 of the 9 recurrent infections were in patients with a staphylococcal infection (P = 0.0004). Ten of the 40 patients (25%) died within 2 years of infection. Irrigation and debridement for the treatment of an acute hematogenous infection was successful in the majority of patients (76% survivorship at 2 years). Nonstaphylococcal infections had a particularly low failure rate (96% survivorship at 2 years). The 2 year mortality rate among this subset of patients was strikingly high. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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