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Paper 109: One Stage Revision for Infected Total Knee Replacement

Praveen Mereddy, Ravikumar V. Pydisetty, Howard Kim, Peter Kay, R.W. Parkinson

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Infection in total knee replacement is a devastating complication. Current literature supports two-stage revision as the gold standard. The alternative single stage procedure has been reported to have favourable results. We assessed the early clinical results of single stage revision for infected total knee replacement.

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Infection in total knee replacement is a devastating complication. Current literature supports two-stage revision as the gold standard. The alternative single stage procedure has been reported to have favourable results. We assessed the early clinical results of single stage revision for infected total knee replacement.

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Infection in total knee replacement is a devastating complication. Current literature supports two-stage revision as the gold standard. The alternative single stage procedure has been reported to have favourable results. We assessed the early clinical results of single stage revision for infected total knee replacement.

Key concepts: Total knee replacement, Stage (stratigraphy), Single stage, Gold standard (test), Medicine, Complication, Surgery, Knee replacement

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