Comparison of infection control rates and clinical outcomes in culture-positive and culture-negative infected total-knee arthroplasty
Comparison of infection control rates and clinical outcomes in culture-positive and culture-negative infected total-knee arthroplasty
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jor.2015.01.020
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发表时间:
2015-10-01
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1.5
通讯作者:
Rastogi, Devarshi
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作者:
Kim, Young-Hoo;Kulkarni, Sourabh S.;Rastogi, Devarshi
Background: To compare the outcomes of the culture positive and the culture negative infected TKA.Methods: 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.Results: The overall infection control rate was 90% in the culture positive group and 95% in the culture negative group.Interpretation: The infection control rates and clinical outcomes of infected TKAs was not different between culture-positive and culture-negative groups. Copyright (C) 2015, Professor P K Surendran Memorial Education Foundation. Publishing Services by Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.