Open AccessImproved diagnosis of chronic hip and knee prosthetic joint infection using combined serum and synovial IL-6 tests
Author(s) -
Leilei Qin,
Xinyu Li,
Jiawei Wang,
Xuan Gong,
Ning Hu,
Wei Huang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bone and joint research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.639
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 2046-3758
DOI - 10.1302/2046-3758.99.bjr-2020-0095.r1
Subject(s) - medicine , synovial fluid , aseptic processing , confidence interval , gastroenterology , receiver operating characteristic , area under the curve , surgery , osteoarthritis , pathology , alternative medicine
This study aimed to explore whether serum combined with synovial interleukin-6 (IL-6) measurement can improve the accuracy of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) diagnosis, and to establish the cut-off values of IL-6 in serum and synovial fluid in detecting chronic PJI.