Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery [electronic resource] /
Meani, E.editor.
Romanò, C.editor.
Crosby, L.editor.
Hofmann, G.editor.
The management of orthopedic infection is an area of growing importance in orthopedic surgery. This text provides a complete overview from basic research to clinical application and future perspectives in the treatment of orthopedic infection emphasising the role of local therapy. The unprecedented collection of experiences of the major experts in the field supplies the reader with long-awaited guidelines for treatment. Covering the various approaches to the treatment of orthopedic infections, it will be an important tool for the daily practice of its readers.
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The management of orthopedic infection is an area of growing importance in orthopedic surgery. This text provides a complete overview from basic research to clinical application and future perspectives in the treatment of orthopedic infection emphasising the role of local therapy. The unprecedented collection of experiences of the major experts in the field supplies the reader with long-awaited guidelines for treatment. Covering the various approaches to the treatment of orthopedic infections, it will be an important tool for the daily practice of its readers.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Socio-economic Burden of Musculoskeletal Infections -- Orthopaedic Device-related Infections -- Epidemiology and Classification of Septic Total Hip Replacement -- Early Radiological Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery -- Bacterial Strategies of Implant Colonization and Resistance -- Pathological Findings of Septic Loosening -- Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Orthopaedic Surgery -- The Limits of Systemic Antibiotics in Device-related Infections -- Antibiotic Bone Cement as a Prophylactic Means in Joint Replacement Surgery -- The Limits of the Local Antibiotic Therapy -- The Role of Suppressive Surgery -- Basic Research and Local Antibiotic Therapy -- PMMA as Drug Delivery System and in vivo Release from Spacers -- Antibiotic Cement Spacers in Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty: Problems, Pitfalls, and Avoiding Complications -- The Preformed Spacers: From the Idea to the Realization of an Industrial Device -- Fatigue and Wear Characterization of the Preformed Hip Spacer -- Fatigue Characterisation of the Preformed Knee Spacer -- Surface Analysis of the Spacer Before and After the Clinical Use -- Bone Loss: Does Use of the Spacer Affects it? -- Antibiotic Impregnated Bone Grafts — What Do We Know? -- Antibiotic-loaded Bone Allograft: Personal Experience -- Antibiotic Loaded Cement: From Research to Clinical Evidence -- Clinical Applications: Hip -- The Management of Infection in THA: A Historical Perspective -- Girdlestone Arthroplasty after Hip Prosthesis Infection — A Two-stage Revision -- One-stage Non-cemented Revision of Septic Hip Prosthesis Using Antibiotic-loaded Bone Graft -- Two-stage Revision of Infected Total Hip Arthroplasty. Comparison Between a Custom-made and a Preformed Spacer -- Two-stage Revision of Infected Total Hip Replacement Using a Preformed, Antibiotic-loaded Acrylic Cement Spacer -- Two-stage Revision of Septic Hip Prosthesis with Uncemented Implants -- Long-stem Preformed Spacers Followed by Uncemented Implants: A Solution for Wide Femoral Opening or Bone Loss in Two-stage Revision -- Two-stage Revision Surgery in Septic Total Hip Arthroplasty -- One-stage, Two-stage or Multi-stage Revision: the Reason of a Choice -- Analysis of the Gait in Patients with Hip Spacers -- Clinical Applications: Knee -- Septic Knee Prosthesis Revision: A Challenging Surgery -- Management of TKA Infection — One-stage Exchange -- Antibiotic-loaded Bone Cement Spacers for the Two-stage Revision in Total Knee Replacement -- Key Points in Two-stage Revision for Infected Knee Arthroplasty: Bone Loss, Quality of Life Between Stages and Surgical Approach at Second Stage -- Two-stage Revision with Preformed Knee Spacers and Modular Knee Prosthesis -- Arthrodesis for the Treatment of Severe Knee Disease -- Arthrodesis and Amputation in Knee Joint Infections -- Salvage Procedures in Exposed Septic Knee Prothesis -- Novel Applications and Perspectives -- The Management of the Shoulder Prosthesis Infection -- Shoulder Spacer as a Definitive Solution? -- The Gentamicin-Vancomycin Spacer: A Pharmacological Study -- Rationale of Nail Antibiotic Clothing and “in vivo” Animal Study -- The Use of Antibiotic-loaded Spacers in Post-traumatic Bone Infection -- The Use of Antibiotic-impregnated Cement in Infected Reconstructions after Resection for Bone Tumors -- Local Antibiotic Therapy: Present and Future.
Orthopedics.
Infectious diseases.
Pharmacy.
Medical microbiology.
Surgical Orthopedics.
Orthopedics.
Infectious Diseases.
Pharmacy.
Medical Microbiology.