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Palliative arthroscopic debridement with continuous irrigation for infected total knee arthroplasty in high mortality risk patients.

Yoon Sang JeonMyung Ku KimDae Gyu KwonSung-Sahn LeeJoo Won ParkDong Seok KangDong-Jin Ryu
Published in: International orthopaedics (2022)
Arthroscopic debridement with continuous irrigation for the infection TKA with high mortality risk or terminal cancer patients showed a 90.5% infection control rate. For high-risk patients, arthroscopic debridement with continuous irrigation can be an alternative treatment to improve the quality of life during survival.
Keyphrases
  • end stage renal disease
  • total knee arthroplasty
  • newly diagnosed
  • ejection fraction
  • chronic kidney disease
  • prognostic factors
  • peritoneal dialysis
  • rotator cuff
  • smoking cessation