Sonication: A Valuable Technique for Diagnosis and Treatment of Periprosthetic Joint Infections

Executive Summary: Diagnosis and Management of Prosthetic Joint Infection: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of Americaa

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Prior Use of Antimicrobial Therapy is a Risk Factor for Culture-negative Prosthetic Joint Infection

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Antibiotic resistance of bacterial biofilms

(2010) Niels Høiby et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Prosthetic joint infection: Recent developments in diagnosis and management

(2010) Maria Adriana Cataldo et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Sonication cultures of explanted components as an add-on test to routinely conducted microbiological diagnostics improve pathogen detection

(2010) Johannes Holinka et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH

Validity of Frozen Sections for Analysis of Periprosthetic Loosening Membranes

(2009) Stephan W. Tohtz et al.   CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH

Risk Factors for Infection After Knee Arthroplasty

(2009) Esa Jämsen et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME

Microbiologic Diagnosis of Prosthetic Shoulder Infection by Use of Implant Sonication

(2009) K. E. Piper et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Increased Expression of Toll-like Receptors in Aseptic Loose Periprosthetic Tissues and Septic Synovial Membranes Around Total Hip Implants

(2009) Y. TAMAKI et al.   JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY

Infection Associated with Prosthetic Joints

(2009) Jose L. Del Pozo et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Polymicrobial Prosthetic Joint Infections: Risk Factors and Outcome

(2008) Camelia E. Marculescu et al.   CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH

Periprosthetic Joint Infection: The Incidence, Timing, and Predisposing Factors

(2008) Luis Pulido et al.   CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH

The value of synovial biopsy, joint aspiration and C-reactive protein in the diagnosis of late peri-prosthetic infection of total knee replacements

(2008) B. Fink et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME

Diagnosis of periprosthetic infection following total hip arthroplasty - evaluation of the diagnostic values of pre- and intraoperative parameters and the associated strategy to preoperatively select patients with a high probability of joint infection

(2008) Michael Mueller et al.   Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

The local inflammatory environment and microorganisms in “aseptic” loosening of hip prostheses

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