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| Author(s): |
Henrique Antonio Berwanger de Amorim Cabrita
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. , gráficos, ilustrações, tabelas. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2004-04-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Olavo Pires de Camargo;
Rudelli Sergio Andrea Aristide;
Alberto Tesconi Croci;
Sérgio Nogueira Drumond;
Ana Lucia Lei Munhoz Lima
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| Advisor: | Olavo Pires de Camargo |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Medicine |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca Central da Faculdade de Medicina ; FM/W4.DB8 SP.USP FM-2; C123est |
| Abstract | |
We report a prospective study of 61 patients with chronically deep infected hip replacements with actively discharging sinuses, treated with a two-stage revision protocol, with and without a cement spacer impregnated with vancomycin. The average follow-up was two years and eleven months. Twenty-five patients were treated without a spacer and seven had recurrence of infection. Thirty-three patients were treated with a spacer and three had recurrence of infection. The average Harris Hip score increased from 19,3 to 69,0 on the non-spacer patients and from 19,7 to 75,2 on the spacer group. At the end of the study, the success rate was 86,1% for the spacer group and 33,3% for the non-spacer group. The use of the spacer increased the results of the two-stage chronic infected hip replacements (AU) | |