The Mark Coventry MD Award: Oral Antibiotics Reduce Reinfection After Two-Stage Exchange: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

摘要

BackgroundMany patients develop recurrent periprosthetic joint infection after two-stage exchange arthroplasty of the hip or knee. One potential but insufficiently tested strategy to decrease the risk of persistent or recurrent infection is to administer additional antibiotics after the second-stage reimplantation.