Erschienen in:
01.01.2015 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Is Potential Malnutrition Associated With Septic Failure and Acute Infection After Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty?
verfasst von:
Rocco P. Pitto, MD, PhD, FRACS
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 1/2015
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Excerpt
Malnutrition and its potential association with periprosthetic infections have been underrepresented in the orthopaedic literature, and infrequently discussed at specialty meetings. I believe orthopaedic researchers have largely ignored this topic because of (1) the enigmatic definitions of malnutrition, (2) the condition often falling outside orthopaedists’ primary scope of practice, and (3) the incorrect assumption that malnutrition is only a marginal problem in total joint arthroplasty (TJA). …