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Valencia, Jose Carlo B

Mayo Clinic

Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

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Destination Joint Spacers, Reinfection, and Antimicrobial Suppression
Valencia, Jose Carlo, Virk, Abinash , Osmon, Douglas R. , Valencia, Jose Carlo B, Abdel, Matthew P. , Razonable, Raymund R.

Clinical Infectious Diseases | January 17, 2019 | Volume: 69 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 1056-1059

10.1093/cid/ciz062 Get It

Abstract In this cohort of 51 patients managed with retained “destination spacers” after the resection of infected joint prostheses, the presence of preoperative sinus drainage was significantly associated with reinfection. Chronic antimicrobial suppression after destination-spacer retention did not significantly prevent reinfections.