ReviewJournal of spine surgery (Hong Kong)2020
Comprehensive treatment algorithm of postoperative spinal implant infection.
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- The Microbiology of Postoperative Spine Surgical Site Infections: An Institutional Experience of 170 cases.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2026Article
- Continuous local antibiotic perfusion for spinal infection: a systematic review of reported cases.Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2026Review
- Response to the Letter to the Editor for Surgical Site Infection, Microbiology, and Antibiotic Utilization After Posterior Cervical Spinal Decompression and Fusion: A 10-Year Experience.Global spine journal · 2026Article
- Suppressive antibiotic therapy for spinal hardware infection: a retrospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Molecular mechanism of gallium nitrate in inhibiting bacterial biofilm formation through pykF modulation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Instrumented Lumbar Spine Surgery: Cefazolin Outperforms Clindamycin Regardless of Duration.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Microbiologic diagnosis of implant-associated infections.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Review
- Tissue sampling is non-inferior in comparison to sonication in orthopedic revision surgery.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Incidence, risk factors and clinical course of pyogenic spondylodiscitis patients with pulmonary embolism.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2022Article
- [Common infectious challenges of the thoracic and lumbar spine : Spondylodiscitis and postoperative wound infection].Der Unfallchirurg · 2022Review
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Abstract
Postoperative spinal implant infection (PSII) is a commonly found and serious complication after instrumented spinal surgery. Whereas early-onset PSII usually can be diagnosed by clinical symptoms, the diagnosis of late-onset PSII can be often made only by examination of intraoperatively collected samples. The treatment of PSII consists of surgical and antibiotic therapy schemes. In case of early PSII, the retention of spinal implants is a feasible option, whereas late PSII is usually treated by one-staged exchange of the spinal implants. Radical debridement of surrounding tissue should be performed in any case of PSII. The antibiotic treatment depends on either the implants can be removed or need to be retained or exchanged, respectively. If the causative pathogens are sensitive for biofilm-active antibiotic agents, the duration of antibiotic treatment amounts to 12 weeks with retention of spinal implants. In case of problematic pathogens, the application of antibiotics needs to be prolonged for an individual duration. Antibiotic treatment should always be initiated with an intravenous application for at least 2 weeks.
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