Infection remains a serious complication after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and is a leading cause of hip revision surgery. It is currently accepted that removal of the prosthesis is essential to curing an infection when facing chronic PJIs with prosthesis loosening. In order to avoid the disadvantages of a two-stage approach, some authors have proposed a one-stage hip revision for the treatmen...

BACKGROUND Bone and joint infection involving Granulicatella adiacens is rare, and mainly involved in cases of bacteremia and infectious endocarditis. Here we report three cases of prosthetic joint infection involving G. adiacens that were successfully treated with surgery and prolonged antimicrobial treatment. We also review the two cases of prosthetic joint infection involving G. adiacens tha...

Although infrequent, infections represent the dreadful complication of penile prosthesis implantation. The incidence substantially decreases after a few infection-free postoperative months. We report herein a case of a very late penile prosthesis infection from a fistualizing scrotal abscess in a 67-year-old man. The patient presented with a one-month history of persistent penile-base discharge...

Deep infection, the most serious local complication of total hip replacement, prompted a study of the records of 135 patients (137 hips) thus afflicted in a nationwide survey of Canada. Particular attention has been paid to the natural history of the infection, and the problems of diagnosis are described. Twenty-one patients died after the insertion, or removal, of the prosthesis, and of the su...

Abstract Background Infection is the most feared complication of a penile prosthesis. Diabetes mellitus (DM) widely known to increase risk several infections, but its role in prosthesis still controversial. This systematic review aims show contemporary scenario infection and present meta-analysis about DM contribution infection. Methods The was performed with no language or time limitation, inc...

This case report is a case history of a femoral prosthesis infection caused by Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in a human immunodeficiency virus patient. Though the pathogenicity of this organism for bone tissue has been previously reported, this is the first reported case of an orthopedic prosthesis infection by this species of the genus Rhodotorula.

Penile prosthesis implantation has become the most popular and acceptable mode of surgical intervention in the treatment of erectile dysfunction refractory to medical treatment. However, prosthesis infection is the most serious and devastating complication of this type of the surgery, as in other prosthesis surgeries. This complication usually necessitates the removal of infected prosthesis and...

We report our experience in insertion of Dynaflex* penile prosthesis in 32 patients. In all cases we used a transverse dorsal incision at the base of the penis. No single case of infection or post-operative prolonged edema was encountered in our series. Two patients had inadequate deflation of prosthesis. Three had prolonged postoperative pain. Our technique, results and long term follow up dat...

PURPOSE We investigated the impact of surgeon annual case volume on reoperation rates after inflatable penile prosthesis surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS The New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System database was queried for inflatable penile prosthesis cases from 1995 to 2014. Multivariate proportional hazards regression was performed to estimate the impact of surgeon annual ...