Two-stage revision for periprosthetic joint infection of the hip: Culture-negative versus culture-positive infection.

Santoso, Asep; Park, Kyung-Soon; Shin, Young-Rok; Yang, Hong-Yeol; Choi, Ik-Sun; Yoon, Taek-Rim · J Orthop · 2018

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

Negative culture findings are common in periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) of the hip. Retrospective study was performed to total 84 patients which devided into two groups: culture-negative (n: 27) and culture-positive (n: 57). The reimplantation rate was 96.3% and 91.2% in the culture-negative and culture-positive groups, respectively. The overall infection control rate was 92.6% and 82.4% in the culture-negative and culture-positive groups, respectively. Two-stage revision resulted a comparable outcome for the treatment of culture-negative periprosthetic joint infection of the hip compared to the culture-positive group.

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