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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Athanasios Galanis, Spyridon Karampitianis, John Vlamis, Panagiotis Karampinas, Michail Vavourakis, Christos Vlachos, Eftychios Papagrigorakis, Dimitrios Zachariou, Evangelos Sakellariou, Iordanis Varsamos and 4 more

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Athanasios Galanis3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Spyridon Karampitianis3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0003-7466-2031
John Vlamis3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis Karampinas3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8475-5475
Michail Vavourakis3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Christos Vlachos3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Eftychios Papagrigorakis3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios Zachariou3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5614-8870
Evangelos Sakellariou3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Iordanis Varsamos3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Christos Patilas3rd Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Sofia TsiplakouDepartment of Microbiology, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Vasiliki PapaioannouDepartment of Microbiology, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
Spyridon KamariotisDepartment of Microbiology, KAT General Hospital, Kifisia, 14561 Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRKAT General Hospital of Attica · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTotal hip arthroplasty is indubitably a dominant elective surgery in orthopaedics, contributing to prodigious improvement in the quality of life of patients with osteoarthritis. One of the most potentially devastating complications of this operation is periprosthetic joint infection. Immunocompromised patients might be afflicted by infrequent low-virulence organisms not typically detected with conventional procedures. Consequently, employing advanced identification methods, such as the circumstantial sonication of orthopaedic implants, could be crucial to managing such cases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a peculiar case of a 72-year-old female patient suffering from a chronic periprosthetic hip infection due to LITERATURE REVIEW: Although copious literature exists concerning managing periprosthetic hip infections, no concrete guidelines are available for such infections in multimorbid or immunocompromised patients with rare low-virulence microorganisms. Hence, a diagnostic work-up, antibiotic treatment and appropriate revision timeline must be determined. Sonication of extracted implants could be a powerful tool in the diagnostic arsenal, as it can aid in identifying rare microbes, such as CLINICAL RELEVANCE:

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CorynebacteriumCorynebacterium striatumhiphip infectionimmunodeficiencyprosthetic joint infectionrare pathogensonication

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PMID38275553
PMCPMC10815444
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