The change in plasma D-dimer does not help to guide the timing of reimplantation in two stage exchange for periprosthetic joint infection

The change in plasma D-dimer does not help to guide the timing of reimplantation in two stage exchange for periprosthetic joint infection

Abstract D-dimer has been included in the criteria by the Musculoskeletal Infection Society in 2018 as a novel parameter to diagnose prosthetic joint infection (PJI). However, it is unclear how D-dimer levels change in between stages of a two-stage exchange. We prospectively investigated 30 patients...

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Main Authors: Thomas Ackmann, Jan Schwarze, Georg Gosheger, Tom Schmidt-Braekling, Kristian Nikolaus Schneider, Ralf Dieckmann, Sebastian Klingebiel, Burkhard Moellenbeck, Christoph Theil
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/389b258bba9f4eaca52ce80c2b8c3afb
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