Infection Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Prevention of Periprosthetic Joint Infection

“…These elements concern both the host and the environment. Conditions that can increase the risk of infection include (but are not limited to): uncontrolled diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure, congestive heart failure, hypercholesterolemia, malnutrition, pulmonary disease, valvular heart disease, preoperative anemia, venous thromboembolism, peripheral vascular disease, metastatic tumor, psychosis, alcohol abuse, and depression (3,(18)(19)(20).…”

Unsatisfactory Outcome of Arthrodesis Performed After Septic Failure of Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty

“…Infection eradication represents a challenge to both patients and surgeons [1][2][3][4][5][6] . The problem is of economic importance for the health-care system, since the treatment of a periprosthetic infection is associated with substantial costs.…”

Metal artefact reduction in MRI at both 1.5 and 3.0 T using slice encoding for metal artefact correction and view angle tilting

“…In this context, MRI is supposed to be the imaging modality of choice for such applications because it has superior soft-tissue contrast. [1][2][3] However, the diagnostic accuracy and efficiency of MRI has been compromised by the susceptibility artefacts caused by metal implants. 4,5 Briefly, susceptibility artefacts result from local inhomogeneity of the main magnetic field, which will cause spin dephasing and frequency shifting of the tissue structures surrounding the metal implants.…”