conclusion of the asymptomatic patients investigated, 58% showed focal enhanced periprosthetic glucose metabolism. this finding should be taken into consideration as a more probable unspecific metabolic pattern for correct interpretation of 18f-fdg-pet studies in patients with suspected septic loosening of the hip prosthesis. results fourteen hip prostheses in 12 patients were visually analyzed...

Introduction: Recently the most accurate diagnostic method in the diagnosis of prosthesis infection is the combination of Tc-99m labeled leukocyte/bone marrow imaging. However the diagnostic efficiency of the test is influenced because of its low spatial resolution. Recently SPECT/CT imaging is implicated in this test with efficient additional diagnostic improvement. In the dep...

Background The ability to follow the distribution and migration of biologically active cells in human is essential for the development of cell-based therapies and diagnostics. Nuclear medicine imaging is widely applied in clinic as an attractive technique for in vivo WBC and stem cell tracking. The aim of this study was to evaluate prosthesis infection of a 51 years old man with previous histo...

background the ability to follow the distribution and migration of biologically active cells in human is essential for the development of cell-based therapies and diagnostics. nuclear medicine imaging is widely applied in clinic as an attractive technique for in vivo wbc and stem cell tracking. the aim of this study was to evaluate prosthesis infection of a 51 years old man with previous histor...

A review of patients with an infected resurfacing prosthesis is presented. Eight patients with a loose infected prosthesis were treated by a one-stage exchange arthroplasty; six others with a well-fixed infected prosthesis were treated by drainage and antibiotics. All eight treated by exchange arthroplasty remained free of infection as did five of those treated by drainage. In four of these las...

Background: Limb salvaging surgeries are current surgical treatment of extremity bone sarcomas. Resected bonereplacement consists of two main methods; tumor prosthesis versus structural allograft. Biological reconstruction withan allograft is an economic cheap method in young sarcoma patients, however, the surgeons are more convinced withtumor prosthesis replacement.Methods: We evaluated the sh...

The aim of this study is to determine the success rate in eradication of early methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prosthetic joint infection. Rate of prosthesis retention and functional outcome between patients with prosthesis retention and prosthesis revision were compared. All patients who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty between May 1998 and September 2008 at our ins...

We describe a case of Salmonella enteritidis infection of a prosthetic knee joint that was cured with ceftriaxone therapy for 6 weeks and replacement of the tibial component of the prosthesis. Eleven other cases of salmonella prosthetic joint infection have been reported in the English-language literature. Five infections occurred within 20 days of prosthesis placement, and seven occurred sever...

great prosthesis for reinforcement of visceral sac is a guranteed operation for unilateral or bilateral inguinal hernias in otil patients or recurrent cases. the greatest use of this technique is in the patients who are at specially high risk for recurrence. we successfully accomplished this technique in 70 cases in our hospital while the patients were countiniously under our close inspection f...