Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Infectious Complications after Large Joints Arthroplasty

Surgical outcomes were analyzed for 108 patients with infectious complications developed at different terms after large joints arthroplasty. When complications develop in the early postoperative period than independently of the process depth and in stable implant components radical surgical debridement of the inflammation focus is indicated. In the rest of cases the removal of all implant components with subsequent either joint arthrodesis or revision arthroplasty using spacers of different modifications should be performed. We consider spacer application to be a method of choice as it enables to preserve extremity function and to perform revision arthroplasty in future.

peri-implant infection, spacer, arthrodesis, revision arthroplasty