Open AccessSynovial Cell Count Before Reimplantation Can Predict the Outcome of Patients with Periprosthetic Knee Infections Undergoing Two-stage Exchange
Author(s) -
Tiziana Ascione,
Giovanni Balato,
Massimo Mariconda,
Francesco Smeraglia,
Andrea Baldini,
Cristiano De Franco,
Giuseppe Pandolfo,
Roberta Siciliano,
Pasquale Pagliano
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000001788
Subject(s) - medicine , periprosthetic , synovial fluid , surgery , aseptic processing , antibiotics , stage (stratigraphy) , knee joint , arthroplasty , osteoarthritis , pathology , paleontology , alternative medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Although synovial fluid can be used to diagnose periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) effectively, only the cutoff values adopted at the time of PJI diagnosis have been standardized, and few data are currently available about effectiveness of synovial fluid examination before definitive reimplantation.