Painful knee prosthesis ? Your hip prosthesis is not working ?
Did you know it can be a peri-prosthetic infection ?
Peri-prosthetic infection is the no. 1 reason for failure of total knee prosthesis and the no. 3 of hip prosthesis.
The risk of developing an infection around the prosthesis is increased in patients affected by one or more of the following conditions:
- Diabetes
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Peripheral vasculopathy / ulcers
- Renal insufficiency
- Tumors
- Corticostiroids or immunosuppressive therapies
- Previous surgeries on the same joint
- Smoking
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- etc.
