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Prosthetic Hip Infection Due to

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Journal BMJ Case Rep
Specialty General Medicine
Date 2022 Mar 11
PMID 35272991
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Abstract

A woman in her 60s with a left hip prosthesis was presented with left hip pain and fever. She had an elevated white blood cell count and inflammatory markers. Synovial fluid Gram stain demonstrated curved Gram-negative rods identified as  The patient initially refused surgery and after 3 months underwent one-stage exchange after which she was treated with 12 weeks of levofloxacin. Her inflammatory markers normalised and she was clinically doing well at her 6-month follow-up. is a rare cause of prosthetic joint infection and should be included in the differential diagnosis when a patient has risk factors even without significant preceding gastrointestinal symptoms. Per most recent Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines, treatment after one-stage revision includes 4-6 weeks of intravenous antimicrobials followed by possible oral suppression therapy, while the European guidelines recommend 12 weeks of orally bioavailable antibiotics.

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