Microbial findings and the role of difficult-to-treat pathogens in patients with periprosthetic infection admitted to the intensive care unit

Little is known about patients with Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The purpose of this study was threefold: i) To report the microbiological findings of ICUpatients with PJI. ii) To compare the clinical data between Difficult-To-Treat (DTT) and non-DT...

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Published in:Orthopedic Reviews
Main Authors: Christopher Ull, Emre Yilmaz, Hinnerk Baecker, Thomas Schildhauer, Christian Waydhas, Uwe Hamsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Medical Publishing 2020-11-01
Subjects:
Difficult-to-treat
intensive care unit
mortality
periprosthetic joint infection
Online Access:https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/or/article/view/8867

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