Comparison of infection control rates and clinical outcomes in culture-positive and culture-negative infected total-knee arthroplasty.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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Abstract
To compare the outcomes of the culture positive and the culture negative infected TKA. We determined the infection control rate in the 242 patients (140 patients with culture-positive and 102 patients with culture-negative diagnoses) with infected TKAs. The overall infection control rate was 90% in the culture positive group and 95% in the culture negative group. The infection control rates and clinical outcomes of infected TKAs was not different between culture-positive and culture-negative groups.
Anatomy
- knee