Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Histoplasmosis is a common pathogen but rarely reported in prosthetic joint infections. We present a case of Histoplasmosis capsulatum prosthetic joint infection along with a literature review revealing no guidelines or consensus on surgical and antifungal management. We chose the 2-stage management...

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Autores principales: Nowbakht, Cima, Garrity, Katherine, Webber, Nicholas, Eraso, Jairo, Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7416186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx118
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author Nowbakht, Cima
Garrity, Katherine
Webber, Nicholas
Eraso, Jairo
Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
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description Histoplasmosis is a common pathogen but rarely reported in prosthetic joint infections. We present a case of Histoplasmosis capsulatum prosthetic joint infection along with a literature review revealing no guidelines or consensus on surgical and antifungal management. We chose the 2-stage management with an antifungal spacer and systemic oral itraconazole.
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spelling pubmed-74161862020-08-12 Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty Nowbakht, Cima Garrity, Katherine Webber, Nicholas Eraso, Jairo Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Histoplasmosis is a common pathogen but rarely reported in prosthetic joint infections. We present a case of Histoplasmosis capsulatum prosthetic joint infection along with a literature review revealing no guidelines or consensus on surgical and antifungal management. We chose the 2-stage management with an antifungal spacer and systemic oral itraconazole. Oxford University Press 2017-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7416186/ /pubmed/32793759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx118 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Nowbakht, Cima
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Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title_full Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title_fullStr Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title_full_unstemmed Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title_short Prosthetic Joint Infection Due to Histoplasma capsulatum Complicating a Total Knee Arthroplasty
title_sort prosthetic joint infection due to histoplasma capsulatum complicating a total knee arthroplasty
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7416186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32793759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx118
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