Erschienen in:
01.01.2015 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: The Alpha-defensin Test for Periprosthetic Joint Infection Outperforms the Leukocyte Esterase Test Strip
verfasst von:
Eoin Sheehan, MD, MCh, FRCS(Orth)
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 1/2015
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Excerpt
The diagnosis and treatment of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is common enough to be disconcerting, seldom easy to make, and always hard on our patients. While we have myriad of implants and spacers to treat it, we lack good diagnostic tools to detect and confirm the presence of PJI. Arthroplasty surgeons should familiarize themselves with the modification of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society’s definition as formulated by the international consensus meeting on PJI in 2013 [
1,
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