The necessity of treating asymptomatic bacteriuria with antibiotics in the perioperative period of joint arthroplasty: a metaanalysis | Zendy

Sayed Abdulla Jami | Zendy; Shi Jiandang | Zendy; Zhanwen Zhou | Zendy; Changhao Liu | Zendy

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The necessity of treating asymptomatic bacteriuria with antibiotics in the perioperative period of joint arthroplasty: a metaanalysis

Author(s) -

Sayed Abdulla Jami,

Shi Jiandang,

Zhanwen Zhou,

Changhao Liu

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

turkish journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1303-6165

pISSN - 1300-0144

DOI - 10.3906/sag-2003-22

Subject(s) - medicine , periprosthetic , perioperative , bacteriuria , asymptomatic , odds ratio , incidence (geometry) , antibiotics , joint arthroplasty , cochrane library , surgery , asymptomatic bacteriuria , meta analysis , arthroplasty , urinary system , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , optics , biology

Oral antibiotics are usually used to treat asymptomatic bacteriuria during the perioperative period of joint replacement. However, there is no unified conclusion as to whether asymptomatic bacteriuria causes infection around joint prostheses, and the efficacy of antibiotics is unknown.

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