Clostridium perfringens infection in a total knee arthroplasty. A case report. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A 66-year-old woman with a painful total knee arthroplasty and turbid fluid aspirates had her prosthesis removed for a presumed diagnosis of infection. The intraoperative cultures were positive for Clostridium perfringens, and the patient did well after a course of intravenous antibiotics prior to reimplantation. Clostridium perfringens is a rare cause of pyarthrosis in both nonoperative and prosthetic joints. This report details the first case of clostridial infection involving a patient with a total knee arthroplasty.

publication date

  • January 1, 1988

Research

keywords

  • Clostridium Infections
  • Knee Prosthesis
  • Surgical Wound Infection

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023812242

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0883-5403(88)80006-8

PubMed ID

  • 2904487

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 3 Suppl