VIDEO: Patients with PJI may have low risk for ipsilateral infection at 5 years
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Key takeaways:
- Infection of the hip joint had a 5-year survivorship free from infection to the knee joint of 99%.
- Infection of the knee joint had a 5-year survivorship free from infection to the hip joint of 97%.
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In this video, Nicholas A. Bedard, MD, discusses results that showed patients with an infection in a single joint had a low risk for infection in an ipsilateral prosthetic joint at 5 years.
“The take-home from our work is that it is not an uncommon thing to see patients that have both a hip and knee replacement when you are treating one of them for infection,” Bedard, from Mayo Clinic, told Healio. “Patients and surgeons can feel comfortable that their other joint has a low chance of developing an infection, but our data also highlights the importance of getting rid of infection when you are treating it because two-thirds of the ones that did occur in the ipsilateral joint were a result of a failure to eradicate that initial infection.”
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Salmons HI, et al. Paper 25. Presented at: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting; Nov. 2-5, 2023; Grapevine, Texas.
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