Prosthetic Joint Infection Diagnosis
Prospective Clinical Study Shoulder Implants

January 2010
Fourteen patients with prosthetic joint infection had positive sonicate fluid and negative tissue cultures.
No patients with prosthetic joint infection had negative sonicate fluid cultures and positive tissue cultures. 48 patients with prosthetic joint infection had positive sonicate fluid and tissue cultures, with concordant results in 37. Five had an additional organism detected by sonicate fluid cultures, four had an additional organism detected by periprosthetic tissue cultures, and two had different organisms detected by the two techniques. Among the aseptic failure subjects there were three with positive sonicate fluid cultures and two different subjects with positive tissue cultures.
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- Introduction
- Total Hip and Knee Replacement Procedures United States 1990-2006
- Body Diagram
- Prosthetic Hip and Knee Infections United States 1990-2004
- Surgical Management of Prosthetic Hip or Knee Infection
- Common Causes Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Infection
- Unusual Causes of Prosthetic Joint Infection3
- Diagram
- Criteria for Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection
- Prosthetic Joint Infection Clinical Presentation
- C-Reactive Protein Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
- C-Reactive Protein Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
- Images
- 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Increased Activity Around the Bone-Prosthesis Interface
- Synovial Fluid Leukocyte/Differential Prosthetic Knee
- Studies of Intrasurgical Frozen-Section Histopathologic Findings of Acute Inflammation in Prosthetic Joint Infection Diagnosis
- Prospective Vortexing/Sonication Clinical Study Hip or Knee Implants6
- Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm on Polycarbonate Coupons Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Periprosthetic Tissue and Sonicate Fluid Culture
- Prospective Vortexing/Sonication Clinical Study Hip or Knee Implants6
- Definition of Prosthetic Hip and Knee Infection
- Number of Microorganisms Detected by Sonicate Fluid Culture
- Results Prosthetic Hip or Knee Infection
- Effect of Preoperative Antimicrobial Therapy on Culture Sensitivity in Patients with Prosthetic Hip or Knee Infection
- Diagram
- Prospective Clinical Study Shoulder Implants
- Prospective Clinical Study Shoulder Implants
- Definition of Definite Prosthetic Shoulder Infection
- Prospective Clinical Study Shoulder Implants
- Shoulder Arthroplasty Infection
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Questions?
- Disclosure


