Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Gemella haemolysans is a Gram-positive coccus and commensal of the upper respiratory tract and oral mucosa that rarely causes clinically important infections. There is only one previous report of this organism causing periprosthetic infection, in a total knee arthroplasty. We present a case of septi...

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Autores principales: Rose, Barry, Jeer, Parminder J. S., Spriggins, Anthony J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23227390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/691703
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description Gemella haemolysans is a Gram-positive coccus and commensal of the upper respiratory tract and oral mucosa that rarely causes clinically important infections. There is only one previous report of this organism causing periprosthetic infection, in a total knee arthroplasty. We present a case of septic loosening of an uncemented total hip arthroplasty due to G. haemolysans, in an asplenic patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Treatment with two-stage revision has been successful at 7 years of follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-35042472012-12-07 Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty Rose, Barry Jeer, Parminder J. S. Spriggins, Anthony J. Case Rep Orthop Case Report Gemella haemolysans is a Gram-positive coccus and commensal of the upper respiratory tract and oral mucosa that rarely causes clinically important infections. There is only one previous report of this organism causing periprosthetic infection, in a total knee arthroplasty. We present a case of septic loosening of an uncemented total hip arthroplasty due to G. haemolysans, in an asplenic patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Treatment with two-stage revision has been successful at 7 years of follow-up. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3504247/ /pubmed/23227390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/691703 Text en Copyright © 2012 Barry Rose et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
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title_full Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
title_fullStr Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
title_short Gemella haemolysans Infection in Total Hip Arthroplasty
title_sort gemella haemolysans infection in total hip arthroplasty
topic Case Report
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