Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis

We report a case of an infected total knee arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis. The patient was successfully treated with a two-stage exchange arthroplasty, local antifungal treatment, and systemic antifungal treatment. This specific combination therapy to treat C. parapsilosis joint infection ha...

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Autores principales: Keuning, Martine Christine, Al Moujahid, Aziz, Zijlstra, Wierd Pieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31934480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3634519
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description We report a case of an infected total knee arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis. The patient was successfully treated with a two-stage exchange arthroplasty, local antifungal treatment, and systemic antifungal treatment. This specific combination therapy to treat C. parapsilosis joint infection has not been previously reported.
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spelling pubmed-69427322020-01-13 Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis Keuning, Martine Christine Al Moujahid, Aziz Zijlstra, Wierd Pieter Case Rep Orthop Case Report We report a case of an infected total knee arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis. The patient was successfully treated with a two-stage exchange arthroplasty, local antifungal treatment, and systemic antifungal treatment. This specific combination therapy to treat C. parapsilosis joint infection has not been previously reported. Hindawi 2019-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6942732/ /pubmed/31934480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3634519 Text en Copyright © 2019 Martine Christine Keuning et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title_full Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title_fullStr Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title_full_unstemmed Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title_short Prosthetic Joint Infection of a Revision Knee Arthroplasty with Candida parapsilosis
title_sort prosthetic joint infection of a revision knee arthroplasty with candida parapsilosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31934480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3634519
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