Jan Puetzler, Alejandro Vallejo Diaz, Georg Gosheger, Martin Schulze, Daniel Arens, Stephan Zeiter, Claudia Siverino, Robert G Richards, Thomas F Moriarty
AIMS: Fracture-related infection (FRI) is commonly classified based on the time of onset of symptoms. Early infections (< two weeks) are treated with debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR). For late infections (> ten weeks), guidelines recommend implant removal due to tolerant biofilms. For delayed infections (two to ten weeks), recommendations are unclear. In this study we compared infection clearance and bone healing in early and delayed FRI treated with DAIR in a rabbit model...
March 22, 2024: Bone & Joint Research