Bone Cement and Local Antibiotic Therapy in Purulent Osteology

Abstract

In special literature more and more attention is paid to the problem of periprosthetic infection that is stipulated by increasing number of arthroplasties performed all over the world including Russia. Not declining rate of such complications is grounded by the conditions of intervention performance, concomitant diseases and peculiarities of pathogenic microflora. Unfortunately the conventional schemes of systemic therapy are not always applicable in purulent periprosthetic process development that requires local antibiotic delivery. Review of foreign literate is dedicated to the modern aspects of treatment by adding antibiotics to bone cement.