Current views on diagnosing and treatment of patients with periprosthetic infection after the knee arthroplasty

Abstract

The proportion of the procedures of the knee surgical revision arthroplasty performed due to infection is ab ove 58% of all revision interventions. In their presented review of the literature the authors analyzed the data of numerous references covering the problems of current diagnosis, as well as the approaches to treatment of periprosthetic infection. Most authors report of the efficiency of two-staged treatment, wherein a type of the spacer implanted at the first stage does not influence the effectiveness of the debridement of infection inflammation focus. However, the use of articulating debriding structures at the first stage has some advantages over non-articulating ones, and among them the better range of motions in the operated knee is one of the most important.