Potential Blood Biomarkers for Diagnosing Periprosthetic Joint Infection: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study.

Hong XuJinwei XieShaoyun ZhangDuan WangZeyu HuangZong-Ke Zhou

Published in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)

Preoperative serum CRP with a low cutoff may be the best reliable blood biomarker for identifying PJI, and those traditional or novel available blood biomarkers could not further improve the diagnostic ability on the basis of CRP.

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