Treatment of Candida Infection after TKA
Journal of the Korean Knee Society
;
: 98-104, 2009.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
We wanted to review the clinical results of staged reimplantation in patients who had candidal infection after total knee arthroplasty. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We reviewed five patients who had a candidal prosthetic knee infection, as was assessed by synovial fluid culture. Amphotericin B was intravenously administrated to all five patients during the postoperative period for six weeks and followed for at least twelve months. We carried out two-stage re-implantations with using antifungal agent-impregnated bone cement. Whether or not infection recurred was evaluated according to the symptoms and radiologic and hematologic studies. The clinical results were analyzed on the basis of the range of motion and hospital for special surgery (HSS) score.RESULTS:
The final review showed that all of the symptoms disappeared. We could not find any loosening on the radiologic studies and all five patients had normal C-reactive protein values on serological exams. The mean postoperative range of motion was 1degrees (range 0~5)~99degrees (range 70~130) and the mean HSS score improved from 49.4 (range 44~64) points to 73 (range 65~90) after the re-implantation.CONCLUSION:
We successfully controlled five candidal prosthetic knee infections by removing the components in conjunction with using an antifungal- impregnated bone cement and staged re-implantation after a 6 week course of intravenous antifungal drugs.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Postoperative Period
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Arthroplasty
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Replantation
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Synovial Fluid
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Candida
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C-Reactive Protein
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Amphotericin B
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Range of Motion, Articular
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Knee
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Knee Society
Year:
2009
Type:
Article
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