Infection of orthopedic prostheses after Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We prospectively evaluated 53 patients with prosthetic joints and 27 patients with other orthopedic prosthetic devices who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). After exclusion of patients with primary postoperative infections, the risk of a prosthesis becoming infected by means of hematogenous seeding after SAB was 34% (15 of 44 patients) for prosthetic joints and 7% (1 of 15 patients) for other orthopedic prostheses.

publication date

  • February 7, 2001

Research

keywords

  • Bacteremia
  • Hip Prosthesis
  • Knee Prosthesis
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections
  • Staphylococcal Infections

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0035864525

PubMed ID

  • 11181131

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 32

issue

  • 4