Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Joint Disease: Prevention and Diagnosis. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication that can occur following total joint arthroplasty (TJA), causing significant morbidity and often requiring revision surgery. This goal of this manuscript is to review the current evidence for the prevention and diagnosis of PJI in patients with inflammatory arthritis. RECENT FINDINGS: Patients with inflammatory arthritis have a higher risk of PJI after TJA; however, there are several preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures that can be optimized to lower the burden of PJI in this population. This manuscript will review the current evidence and clinical practice recommendations that support specific features of preoperative evaluation, perioperative medication management, and surgical planning in inflammatory arthritis patients undergoing TJA. Evidence and recommendations for the diagnosis of PJI in this patient population will also be reviewed. Despite increased research efforts directed towards PJI, specific approaches directed at the inflammatory arthritis patient population remain surprisingly limited. Optimization strategies such as adequately managing disease-modifying medications, treating preoperative anemia, encouraging smoking cessation, and improving weight management are strongly encouraged before entering the perioperative period. If PJI does occur in the inflammatory arthritis patient, establishing the diagnosis is challenging, since guidelines were created from investigations of PJI in primarily patients without inflammatory arthritis. Future prospective research is required to better guide clinicians in preventing and diagnosing PJI in inflammatory arthritis patients undergoing TJA.

publication date

  • September 10, 2018

Research

keywords

  • Arthritis
  • Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC6543529

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85053044591

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.arth.2018.02.073

PubMed ID

  • 30203376

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 20

issue

  • 11