Outcomes of Unrestricted Weight-Bearing During Interval Period With Cement-on-Cement Articulating Antibiotic-Loaded Spacers in Two-Stage Revision for Knee Prosthetic Joint Infection
Kazuya Uehara, Eiichi Shiigi, Kazushige Seki, Takashi Imagama, Toshihiro Seki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Sakai · 2024
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Description
Kazuya Uehara and six colleagues report on sixteen patients who walked fully on their new knee hardware while waiting out the gap in a two-stage fix for an infected joint implant. The standard fix takes the implant out, parks a cement spacer soaked in antibiotics, and puts a new joint in months later. Most teams limit walking in between.
All sixteen walked with full weight on the spacer. One spacer slipped out of place, and one infection flared and was cleaned out. Of the fourteen with a clean new joint at the end, knee scores and bend range were good after more than two years on average. Two joints got infected again. With no comparison group, the authors call for bigger studies.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kazuya Uehara, Eiichi Shiigi, Kazushige Seki, Takashi Imagama, Toshihiro Seki, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Sakai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |