Gram-negative prosthetic joint infections: a retrospective multicentre European study of incidence, risk factors, and treatment outcomes
Ernest Famada Arboix, Arnaud Fischbacher, Matteo Carlo Maria Ferrari, Olivier Borens, Daniel Pérez-Prieto · 2026
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Ernest Famada Arboix and colleagues report a 2026 European study of gram-negative infections across several centres in artificial hip and knee joints. Three referral hospitals in Italy, Spain, and Switzerland reviewed every culture-positive joint infection diagnosed from 2014 to 2018. The team recorded patient traits, germs found, which drugs still worked, operations used, and whether treatment succeeded.
Of 780 confirmed cases, 71, or 9.1 percent of the total, came from gram-negative germs. Mixed growth led at 29.6 percent, followed by Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa among single germs. Patients skewed elderly, female, and burdened by diabetes or excess weight. Overall success reached 89 percent of cases treated, with two-stage redo surgery best at 94.8 percent, ahead of one-stage exchange and a washout that kept the implant. Ciprofloxacin featured in 72 percent of treatments.
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| CREATOR | Ernest Famada Arboix, Arnaud Fischbacher, Matteo Carlo Maria Ferrari, Olivier Borens, Daniel Pérez-Prieto |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20439 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |