Chronic infections in hip arthroplasties: comparing risk of reinfection following one-stage and two-stage revision: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Zendy

Jeppe Lange | Zendy; Anders Troelsen | Zendy; Reimar W. Thomsen | Zendy; Soballe | Zendy

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Chronic infections in hip arthroplasties: comparing risk of reinfection following one-stage and two-stage revision: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author(s) -

Jeppe Lange,

Anders Troelsen,

Reimar W. Thomsen,

Soballe

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868

H-Index - 58

ISSN - 1179-1349

DOI - 10.2147/clep.s29025

Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , stage (stratigraphy) , confidence interval , confounding , systematic review , cohort study , absolute risk reduction , randomized controlled trial , relative risk , cohort , medline , surgery , paleontology , political science , law , biology

Two-stage revision is regarded by many as the best treatment of chronic infection in hip arthroplasties. Some international reports, however, have advocated one-stage revision. No systematic review or meta-analysis has ever compared the risk of reinfection following one-stage and two-stage revisions for chronic infection in hip arthroplasties.

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