Perioperative Lower Urinary Tract Infections and Deep Sepsis in Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Vol. 8 (1), 66-74
- https://doi.org/10.5435/00124635-200001000-00007
Abstract
Deep sepsis in the involved joint after hip or knee arthroplasty may be the result of hematogenous seeding from a remote infectious source. This mechanism has been used to explain the well-documented association between postoperative urinary tract infections and subsequent joint infection afKeywords
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