ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2024
What to Know about Antimicrobial Coatings in Arthroplasty: A Narrative Review.
Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Research trends and focus of prosthetic joint infections from 2013 to 2023: bibliometric and visualization studies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Pooled it
- Resistance mechanisms of bacterial biofilms on orthopedic implants and research progress on novel anti-biofilm coatings.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Megaprosthetic Reconstruction for Pathological Proximal Humerus Fractures: Infection Rates, Prevention Strategies, and Functional Outcomes-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Outcomes of Staphylococcal Prosthetic Joint Infection After Hip Hemiarthroplasty: Single Center Retrospective Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI).The archives of bone and joint surgery · 2025Review
- What Is the Role of Local Antimicrobial Protection for One-Stage Revision for Peri-Prosthetic Hip Infection?Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Forecasting the value of innovation in total knee arthroplasty care: A headroom approach.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are one of the most worrying complications orthopedic surgeons could face; thus, methods to prevent them are evolving. Apart from systemic antibiotics, targeted strategies such as local antimicrobial coatings applied to prosthetics have been introduced. This narrative review aims to provide an overview of the main antimicrobial coatings available in arthroplasty orthopedic surgery practice. The search was performed on the PubMed, Web of Science, SCOPUS, and EMBASE databases, focusing on antimicrobial-coated devices used in clinical practice in the arthroplasty world. While silver technology has been widely adopted in the prosthetic oncological field with favorable outcomes, recently, silver associated with hydroxyapatite for cementless fixation, antibiotic-loaded hydrogel coatings, and iodine coatings have all been employed with promising protective results against PJIs. However, challenges persist, with each material having strengths and weaknesses under investigation. Therefore, this narrative review emphasizes that further clinical studies are needed to understand whether antimicrobial coatings can truly revolutionize the field of PJIs.
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