Sonication of removed hip and knee prostheses for diagnosis of infection.

By A. Trampuz, K. Piper, Melissa J. Jacobson, A. Hanssen, K. Unni, D. Osmon, J. Mandrekar, F. Cockerill, J. Steckelberg, J. Greenleaf and 1 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2007

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Citations in the corpus

• 2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults. (2015, neutral): “Pending further studies, the panel believes that holding antibiotics when feasible for 1 – 2 weeks is reasonable [88].”
• Prosthetic Joint Infection (2014, methodology): “Without the use of a centrifugation concentration step, ROC curve analysis identified an optimal cutoff of 2 CFU per milliliter (248).”
• Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (2014, background): “For explanted hip and knee prostheses, the culture of samples obtained by sonication of prostheses was more sensitive than conventional periprosthetic tissue culture, particularly for patients who had received antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to surgery (403).”
• Diagnosis and management of prosthetic joint infection: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2013, methodology): “samples from the most suspicious areas of tissue as deemed by the orthopedic surgeon should be obtained for aerobic and anaerobic culture for the optimal diagnosis of PJI [40, 41].”
• Prosthetic Joint Infections (2018, positive): “The authors noted that sonication was particularly useful in cases where patients had received antibiotics perioperatively [106].”
• Evolving concepts in biofilm infections (2009, background): “…infections by observing bacterial aggregates by immunostaining and 16S reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) (Tunney et al., 1999) and diagnosis of orthopaedic infection was markedly improved by direct sampling of the prosthesis surface and sonication (Trampuz et al., 2007).”
• ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of biofilm infections 2014. (2015, background): “Techniques such as confocal laser scanning microscopy and scanning electron microscopy are the most appropriate to reveal biofilms in biopsies but they are not available for routine diagnostic work in CML [86] (BIII).”