Infection burden increases over 6 years in THA, TKA

Results from this study demonstrated the infection burden for total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty increased over 6 years among international arthroplasty registries.

“Despite efforts to try to reduce the incidence of periprosthetic infection, the most common cause of failure in total joint arthroplasty, the infection burden has not decreased or changed across multiple worldwide registries,” Bryan D. Springer, MD, told Healio.com/Orthopedics.

Researchers used data from six arthroplasty registries to determine the infection burden for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) revisions performed during the last six years.

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