Staged Revision With Antibiotic Spacers for Shoulder Prosthetic Joint Infections Yields High Infection Control.

CONCLUSION: Revision arthroplasty using an antibiotic-loaded cement spacer provided successful infection control in patients with periprosthetic shoulder infections in this small, retrospective series. Functional improvement was obtained after reimplantation of a reverse total shoulder prosthesis but was not seen after HA and cement spacer; however, baseline differences among patient groups very likely contributed to these differences, and they should not be attributed to implant selection alone.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study.
PMID: 29389759 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - January 1, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Grubhofer F, ImamMD MA, Wieser K, Achermann Y, Meyer DC, Gerber C Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research