Open AccessThe efficacy of a drug holiday test on two-stage revision for infected total knee arthroplasty
Author(s) -
Chun-Hung Chang,
Shi-Chun Tsai,
Kuei-Hsiang Hsu,
MingChau Chang,
Wei-Ming Chen,
YuPing Su
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000055
Subject(s) - medicine , periprosthetic , arthroplasty , surgery , stage (stratigraphy) , total knee arthroplasty , paleontology , biology
We compared the clinical efficacy of normal C-reactive protein (CRP) expression (<1.0 mg/dL), with a 2-week drug holiday test (DHT) and no drug holiday test (DHT) as a reimplantation criterion, based on subsequent infections after a two-stage revision of a total knee arthroplasty of a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI).